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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Pinning to the taskbar doesn't work well for things you need multiple instances open. If hubby has a browser window open, I'll open one for myself so I don't mess up his open tabs. When using Explorer I almost alway need more than one window open if I need to copy files. I used the old File Manager for years after Explorer came out because you could have multiple shares or folders open at once.
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Linux, like Windows XP, does not stack a pinned launcher with open instances. Rather, it occupies a special drawer of its own, independent from the running-programs-drawer.
Personally, I find that approach superior, partially for that reason, partially because it is easier for me to see when a program is opened.
Wait, that isn't entirely true. As usual, Ubuntu's Unity desktop breaks that rule. I have long since lost count of the number of ways I hate Unity though.
Say, rather, that linux has a number of different options for installing a start menu that does whatever you want (and as BWinmill observed, the truly masochistic have insanely customizable options).
A lot of this is only possible, though, by using the freedesktop.org Category standards embedded in the launcher shortcuts. I am waiting for Microsoft to finally catch on to the need for something like this, but I suspect I will wait for decades.
In this one area of desktop structuring (start menus, and for that matter desktop pinning as well*), I strongly believe linux has been and is and will most probably continue to be
vastly superior to Windows,
in every way!
* -- whose insane idea was it to make non-privileged users unable to delete a shortcut installed to the admin-only shared desktop settings folder?