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This brings up a great point about GNOME. GNOME appears to try to emulate macOS at times, but tends to try to oversimplify and paradoxically be quite user-unfri

• curt15 6y ago
  GNOME has an obsession with a "distraction-free" interface that really takes keyboard shortcuts to navigate efficiently. For example, despite the popularity of the dash-to-dock extension, the GNOME developers stubbornly refuse to make the dock built-in. So with the default setup, mouse users (like many in my family) need two large cursor movements (flick to the left corner, then slide down to the dock) every time they need to switch between applications[1]. In fact, at least one core developer has even floated the possibility of removing the dock and its list of currently running apps altogether. [1] No, the window previews aren't really useful because their positions are non-deterministic and it's hard to rapidly distinguish mostly white, unlabeled windows anyway.