Its not so bad if you make good use of your hotkeys. E.g. on Ubuntu the "windows key" + number will switch to that program in your dock. I have it setup like

Its not so bad if you make good use of your hotkeys. E.g. on Ubuntu the "windows key" + number will switch to that program in your dock. I have it setup like this: win+1 = IDE, win+2 = terminal, win+3 = test browser, win+4 = documentation, win+5=notes. Then you can easily run everything on fullscreen and not worry about alt-tab-hell.