Microsoft people, like the Acacia lawyer, do not misunderstand how GNU/Linux works, they misrepresent it.

So Microsoft+Acacia are the Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron of IT.

Virtual screens and desktops in Windows is a waste of time, due to performance reasons. Performance with Nvidia’s add on was no better than what you noticed with XP. Windows uptime is not long enough for people to organize any of their work and session management in Windows is hit and miss, not to mention hibernation or suspend.

Microsoft people, like the Acacia lawyer, do not misunderstand how GNU/Linux works, they misrepresent it. It is clear that he understood that multiple virtual desktops is something that a 1,500 hour study proved people wanted but other Microsoft mouthpieces claim that the single screen GUI of Windows and daily boots is what people really want.

I hadn’t heard of GPU drivers adding virtual desktop functionality to Windows, but then again I never had a real graphics card when I was a Windows user (90s). Few people even know about the possibilities of multi-head displays (which I found gruesome to work without since age 19).

I wonder how Wayland copes with all of that. I fear that it has catching up to do in some areas.

Novell, like Red Hat, competes with Microsoft. They compete with Windows. They want their customers to go ahead and use their products instead of Windows. And they want to be able to leap-frog, to move ahead of Windows.

Specifically, Microsoft’s virtual desktop incompetence is portrayed as obedience to patents while Red Hat and Novel are portrayed as theives. For years Microsoft has spun their incompetence as not wanting to “confuse the user” but it has really been an issue of poor design all along. Companies like Nvidia made virtual desktop software for Windows for years, but it was always unwieldy, slow and unstable rather than confusing. It’s a good thing these patents were invalidated but a shame that Red Hat was put to the cost over such obvious business methods.