fullscreen vs window

I almost always work with one program at a time. It can be any program: text editor, file manager, mail client, ICQ, mp3 player, command line, browser, etc. It is most comfortable to work with this program when, firstly, nothing distracts, and secondly, maximum screen space is set aside for it.

Of these prerequisites, we naturally come to work in the “fullscreen” mode: each program is open to full screen. And for the convenience of switching between programs, each program runs on its virtual desktop, between which you can switch on the Alt + Fx hotkeys (like text consoles in linux).

Thus, I can instantly switch to the email client via Alt + F9, instant messenger via Alt-F10, browser over Alt-F11, etc. Each of these programs takes up a maximum of space (most of them even started with window decoration turned off, as I have no need to drag them beyond the window title, minimize them, etc. And it’s easier to close them with a hot button from the keyboard a la Alt-F4 in Windows ).

As a result, I do not use so-called. "Window" interface - there are no "windows", they do not need to be dragged, resized, minimized, searched for the desired window by Alt + Tab, etc. - shorter to engage in any garbage instead of work!
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All my friends, seeing how I work, also went to work on fullscreen a few years ago, and since then no one has drawn back to the window interface. :)

So I think ... or so-called. The “window” interface is a vicious mockery of people, or I don’t understand something important in this life. :) No, I understand that there are programs with their interface sharpened for the window interface (Gimp, for example). But I launch such programs in a separate virtual desktop and it turns out again the analogue of fullscreen: all Gimp windows are accessible after pressing Alt + F6 and there’s nothing on the screen besides them. And all sorts of asynchronous alerts (something is detected in the logs, the song changed in an mp3 player, etc.) I get in the current virtual desktop via OSD .

By the way, the so-called. I have also disabled the taskbar, which saves extra space on the screen - there is simply no need for a taskbar, because there is always only one task on one virtual desktop. And the menu with a list of rarely used programs (similar to the Start menu) is called up by the Alt-Esc hot button (mice can customize the menu, for example, when you move the mouse to the corner of the screen). And I don’t need to launch frequently used programs from the menu: they are loaded each in their virtual desktop when booting the machine, and they hang there all the time (which makes it possible for me to start working with the desired program just by pressing Alt + Fx immediately after booting the system).

In general, for me personally, such an interface is perfect - this is exactly the case when the very presence of the interface itself is completely unnoticeable!

Question to all who also tried to work in fullscreen: if you returned to the window interface, then why?

PS I once sent a similar text to the maillist gentoo-user-ru, and the Screenshots of the desktop prompted me to bring it here, the number of answers to which is already approaching 300. I can say for the first time I felt defective! : D Well, I do not have a "desktop", no! I can send a screenshot of the contents of the Vim window, but there’s nothing but the text of the file being edited — no menus, no panels, nothing — but, actually, why is there any rubbish on the screen when editing a text file? :)