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someponys-scribbles:

So what is even the point of multiple desktops on WIndows 10?

It’s not like it’s useful, one change to one desktop reflects across all of them, so I can’t set up an “art desktop”, a “programming desktop” and a “general fucking around desktop” since the shortcuts on the desktop/taskbar/start menu itself would all be amalgamated anyway, so it all just becomes three big “general fucking around desktops”.

I’m failing to see the point of it.

It’s for people who have fuckloads of windows and applications open at the same time, like me <_>

I use multiple desktops to homework, mostly. Having Word or Visual Studio in any state other than maximized bugs me out so I have a separate desktop for that with the assignment details or program specs on another. And I switch between them using [Ctrl]-[Win]-[Right] or [Left]

Some people separate their IM stuff and browser windows into other desktops as well.

To me at least, it’s much easier to work with instead of [Alt]-[Tab]ing through a long list of open windows the time. I remember falling in love with Spaces on Mac OS X when I used it years ago, so having it natively on Windows makes me happy.

(Not to say that having separate desktop icon arrangements wouldn’t be super cool, though. o: *writes a note to Microsoft*)

conspicuouslad:

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refinery29:

Yet Another Stat That Proves The Male Gamer Stereotype Is A Farce

With new data from a Pew Research Center survey, we know that women play an even bigger role in the gaming community. Of the 40% of Americans who own a video game console, 42% are women and only 37% are men.

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I’m really confused by this because none of these numbers add up to 100

Well the pie chart is males under 18 vs females over 18, so I can see where that and the race one can have additional categories they’re not showing, but the main male v female one only adding up to 79% definitely makes me wonder what they’re not showing.

A pie chart implies it is representing a whole, not 53%, and not comparing two sides that don’t make sense to be compared. Women over 18 vs. Boys under 18? Why?

And the race one adds up to 127% so are they saying that 39% of white people play games?

No damn sense, any of it.

Awww yeah, time for some research.

Long post incoming. [Link to the Pew Survey]

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Long post incoming. [Link to the Pew Survey]

Here’s a chart grabbed from Pew’s survey, the source of that infograph above. The numbers aren’t meant to fill up a whole 100% because the percentages aren’t divisions of the 40% of all people who own a console. They’re actually tied to the demographic itself.

45% of Hispanics in the survey owned a console. 42% of women in the survey owned a console. 56% of the 18-29 age group in the survey owned a console. And etc.

That’s how you’re supposed to read it. Not as “42% of the adults who own a console are women” like OP implied.

Dumb math after the break.

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