While in Activities - drag an extra open app into a fresh workspace in
the strip on the right.
I should have said while in Windows, and you can also just click on one
of those unused workspaces and open something there.
There are more serious annoyances awaiting, William. ;)
One app to be acquainted with is gnome-session-manager.
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