Thanks for your suggestions of the open source software you use under Windows. I've used many of those tools under Linux (evince, audacity, avidemux, gimp) but it never occurred to me to look if they were easily available under Windows.
Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise) does have multiple desktops, or "virtual desktops" in MS lingo. Press Ctrl-Win-D to create a new one, Ctrl-Win-F4 to delete one, or Win-Tab to give you an overview of the current virtual desktops. (Ctrl-Win + left and right arrows allow you to switch easily between them.)
As for multiple logins, as far as I know, Windows has allowed them since at least Windows 7 (I never got close enough to Vista to know much about it).
Since you're forced to work under Windows 10 at work, if you're using Pro or Enterprise, and if you've got the Anniversary Update (the massive, disconcerting update that Microsoft forced upon its Windows 10 user base last summer), I'd highly suggest checking out WSL (Windows sub-system for Linux). I'm still a Cygwin fan, but WSL allows you to very easily install and run packages straight from the Canonical/Ubuntu repository (via apt), and for the most part they run extremely well. It's the best integration of bash in the Windows environment I've seen yet. What's more, everything you run is ELF-compiled binaries, as opposed to binaries compiled for Windows (as programs under Cygwin are). Again, I still think Cygwin is great, but I've come to prefer WSL for its ease, integration, and native Linux packages.
Thanks for your suggestions of the open source software you use under Windows. I've used many of those tools under Linux (evince, audacity, avidemux, gimp) but it never occurred to me to look if they were easily available under Windows.
Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise) does have multiple desktops, or "virtual desktops" in MS lingo. Press Ctrl-Win-D to create a new one, Ctrl-Win-F4 to delete one, or Win-Tab to give you an overview of the current virtual desktops. (Ctrl-Win + left and right arrows allow you to switch easily between them.)
As for multiple logins, as far as I know, Windows has allowed them since at least Windows 7 (I never got close enough to Vista to know much about it).
Since you're forced to work under Windows 10 at work, if you're using Pro or Enterprise, and if you've got the Anniversary Update (the massive, disconcerting update that Microsoft forced upon its Windows 10 user base last summer), I'd highly suggest checking out WSL (Windows sub-system for Linux). I'm still a Cygwin fan, but WSL allows you to very easily install and run packages straight from the Canonical/Ubuntu repository (via apt), and for the most part they run extremely well. It's the best integration of bash in the Windows environment I've seen yet. What's more, everything you run is ELF-compiled binaries, as opposed to binaries compiled for Windows (as programs under Cygwin are). Again, I still think Cygwin is great, but I've come to prefer WSL for its ease, integration, and native Linux packages.