Whew, flashbacks to Office 95 and its toolbar program, with launcher icons across an entire edge of the screen. Those were the days. I just don't understand i

Whew, flashbacks to Office 95 and its toolbar program, with launcher icons across an entire edge of the screen. Those were the days. I just don't understand it. He talks about having icon launchers for 6 IDEs, 40 directories, 150 documents, 25 web sites, 4 games, and 50 utilities--all visible on the screen at all times. When I used Windows 95/98/2000, I had lots of GUI launchers and desktop icons. Even when I first started using Linux, I had a bunch. But now I only have a few launchers in my panel. I launch programs with krunner, the application menu, or through a terminal. fasd lets me quickly access directories I've accessed before. Fish shell history and percol/fzf/etc let me quickly rerun past commands. Emacs and recentf and helm-locate let me quickly access any file on my filesystem by typing a few characters. I have one panel, about 44 pixels tall, across the top of the screen. My window titlebars are about 32 pixels tall, and they are hidden when the window is maximized. 98% of my screen is devoted to Emacs or Firefox or a shell, LibreOffice, Dolphin, etc. No window borders. Decoration is minimal and gets out of the way. UI is mostly hidden until I need it. But--one of the great things about Linux/FOSS/etc is freedom. This guy can customize his UI the way he likes it. GNOME2/MATE, KDE, TDE (long live KDE 3.5!), etc. let people make their systems work for them, not the other way around. In contrast, Apple, Microsoft, GNOME3--they all say, "Have it our way."