The Windows Explorer has superior features. For example, click and hold the upper frame of a window and put it to the left or right side of the monitor using drag & drop and it will expand to that half of the screen place. Doing so with two windows creates a dual screen file manager. The ribbon menu offers the right features for your specific file types and the explorer natively supports iso image files. The breadcrumb navigation is superior to any other.All along you said Windows was superior. Hmmm. Well, what's superior about Explorer vs file managers in Linux? Were's your multiple desktops? Wish I had that all the years I used Windows. All that shrinking and expanding programs, I don't miss it at all.There is no need for my desktop to be "newer" or superior to other desktops. I just have to like it. And I like the ribbon menu of the Explorer, which is indeed superior. As Linux user, I would prefer Expicula but Windows has the superior Directory Opus, which I also use. It can do anything, replacing a lot of tools and is very customizable.
As for multi-desktop environments, the taskbar allows me to switch between programs with one click. Therefore, I don´t miss a second or more desktops.
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Linux does that too..if you click a window and drag it to the bottom corner, it automatically adjust to that half of the screen, if you open another window it will take up the other half...or you can drag towards the bottom, but not the corner, and it will take up a quarter of the screen. So you can have 4 namagers at the same time automatically sized.
Also - you can "tab" explore...exactly like tabbed browsing, multiple file manager "windows" within the same window.
As far as I know, Linux and Windows supports multiple desktops? Right?
I know both support multiple screens.
Multiple desktops is handy if you are multi-tasking, say working on 3-4 spreadsheets at the same time. The Alt-Tab is inferior because it only shows the office icon rather than which icon is which window. But that is not often used.