Re: Understanding the Ubuntu file system
In Nautilus, you can see the tree structure by choosing View>List, as distinct from View>Icons and the contents of folders/subfolders/sub-subfolders etc by clicking on them.
In Ubuntu, a Workspace is nothing to do with the way files or folders are organised. Each Workspace is a desktop display. A running program which has a display window (ie not the background ones) puts that window into a Workspace - normally the one which was showing when the program started. you can move a display which has the focus to a diffrent Workspace by right-clicking on its tab in the taskbar and choosing one of the relevant options. The Workspaces are shown (for me) in miniature at the far right of the taskbar, with the one currently showing highlit; clicking on one of the others switches the display to that one. Rightclicking any of the miniatures offers "Preferences" where (amongst other things) the number of Workspaces can be altered.
No doubt other people use them differently, but I tend to use them to group related running tasks together - if I get asked to interrupt one activity to do something else urgently, I do the new work in a fresh Workspace to keep it away from the other task. A word of warning, though: if (say) Libreoffice crashes, all instances die - whatever Workspace they are in. Workspaces are for organising what you see, and do not reflect how the computer is functioning behind the scenes.
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