GNOME team believes that convergence between classic desktop and mobile environment is a process that takes place right now. And thus it's completely fine and j

GNOME team believes that convergence between classic desktop and mobile environment is a process that takes place right now. And thus it's completely fine and justified to abandon the desktop paradigm that majority of people is familiar with and promote this weird hybrid - because GNOME actually behaves and works like neither desktop nor mobile. Of course there's nothing wrong with trying to bring novelty, new fresh ideas - some might be really good but a valid criticism should be taken into account. Especially when it's been piling up for a while. Anyway, unlike with Windows the choice is possible on Linux distributions. You can try KDE/Plasma, Budgie, Cinnamon, lightweight Xfce or MATE, or other more advanced solutions like one of tiling window managers. But if for whatever reasons you still wanna stick with GNOME, you can "patch" it with extensions that may give you Windows-like programs menu, desktop icons (the lack of these in GNOME Shell is often bring up as one of the worst offenses), a proper taskbar or dock, more customization for tray icons and notifications or even tweaked animations. It takes time but results are satisfying. Some distributions like Manjaro Linux offer ready to use layouts which are setting up necessary extensions to mimic behavior of other OSes, while on other you need to work through this alone. GNOME in current form can be "tamed" but if you really want yo make your workflow "yours" or bring familiarity to Linux distribution, then KDE/Plasma customization would be best solution. Here you can have an example what can be done: https://youtu.be/2GYT7BK41zk https://youtu.be/2GYT7BK41zk