Except Launchpad is entirely optional and not default for anything beyond being in the dock on new accounts. GNOME, meanwhile, binds that thing to a top-left h

Except Launchpad is entirely optional and not default for anything beyond being in the dock on new accounts. GNOME, meanwhile, binds that thing to a top-left hot corner as well as the meta key, and it's the main way to search for stuff (meta key, start typing), and it's the only way to switch workspaces. Of course, you can install a bunch of addons to work around some of this, but we're talking about sane defaults. GNOMEs are not.