Tidying up after Linux 16779

I think that's the key difference. Read on and this will make more sense.

The "they are always there" is the key for me at least. I have a server tucked away in a finished basement that's up 24-7. It's the domain controller for the house as well as serving the web-site and a host of other things. My desktop PC is not on 24-7. It puts out too much heat and noise so I don't like leaving it on all the time. It's a dual Xeon machine (heat) with Rambus memory (the hot kind with heat-sinks) and quad SATA drives (RAID1) and an nVidia video card with another heat-sink. It's a bit too loud but much too hot to leave on. It's in a spare room with a large window that faces south. Without the computer the temp gets into the 90's in there. I don't need or want more heat in there.

So back to the subject at hand... if I did leave that machine on then having several desktops to switch to on a whim could be useful. Certainly more useful then if I just power-up the machine for a specific task. (I usually use my laptop, like now, for quick things.) But like I mentioned in the other post, maybe I'll enable the virtual desktop support and try it again. It's been at least 2-3 years since I last tried and so maybe it will be a better fit this time around.

Thanks to both of you for the suggestion.