WetGeek thanks for the reply, wetgeek. I like the non-stack/non-taxing approach. I might try it if the navigation is easy.

      brent I might try it if the navigation is easy.

      I'm sure you could handle it after a bit of training.

          WetGeek My frame of references is I tried this (work spaces) when I had a (very) brief flirtation with Solus Gnome. Hopefully it's different in Budgie, looks-wise. Shall see.

            brent I am interested in going towards compartmentalization in the future.

            As happy as I am with Solus (and that hasn't changed at all), I routinely browse DistroWatch to see what's new. One thing I noticed today was EasyOS, based on Puppy. It made me think of you, because it provides the concept of "containers," in which a process can be run inside, or outside, of a container. The container gives each process its own copy of the / filesystem, so it's like a private sandbox. Lots of configuration available!

            For me, it's not worth the time to download and install it, but I thought you might want to take a look because of your interest in compartmentalization.

                WetGeek Browser compartmentalization is all I'm ready to try. Don't need a new OS for that, but thanks.

                    brent Browser compartmentalization is all I'm ready to try.

                    Then anything derived from Chromium (Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.) should do what you want. If you open several tabs, then go take a look at htop, you'll see that every tab represents its own process.

                    For example:

                    If you're looking for something else, please be more specific about what "compartmentalization" means to you, and more help will certainly appear.

                        I meant, browser, I am sorry for being unclear. And browser compartmentalization has nothing to do, in my reading, with multiple tabs, but rather different browsers for different functions. Hence I was drawn to the work spaces idea as well, conceptually. I will also confess I have not read everything about it, but was asking as an aside. Thanks for your time on this, WetGeek .

                        EDIT: I'm wrong as usual---the philosophy of containers is more what I'm interested in more than that general long c-word that I can barely spell. Please forgive me for mangling syntax--I was unclear.