So Plasma has Activities, which is something I noticed a while back. I haven’t really found any use for it other than maybe having a different desktop layout so I was wondering what everyone else used it for.

No shade to the people who added it, just curious.

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    3 months ago

    I use them instead of virtual desktops - each with a specific hotkey, and some with customized pinned apps.

    I have …

    General: Email, shopping, etc.

    Gaming

    Media

    Two Work activities - a primary, and a secondary for when I need to compartmentalize different ongoing tasks

    Other - for anything transitory that doesn’t fit in the others.

    I realize this could largely be done with virtual desktops, though I don’t think you can have a different pinned app loadout for each?

    The downside to setting things up this way is when I restart my computer, it seems to randomly decide which browser windows go in each activity. Also, with apps that I use across them (like Notion), I have to go hunting for which activity it opened in. To get around the issue of splitting Firefox across different profiles, I just use two browsers. Firefox for work, and Firedragon for personal stuff. They share the same external password manager, so it’s pretty seamless.