Gnome 2 did this (and Mate still does), but I actually find it more confusing. It's sometimes not obvious which category a program belongs to, so you have to m

Gnome 2 did this (and Mate still does), but I actually find it more confusing. It's sometimes not obvious which category a program belongs to, so you have to meticulously search all categories that could apply. And you'd only to that if you don't exactly remember the program name in the first place, otherwise you would have had quicker ways to launch it. Here the old windows way offers more 'breadcrumbs' to find something.