Dash to dock to make application switching pretty much instant, hiding the dock away in the overview only ever makes sense when you're screen real-estate constr

Dash to dock to make application switching pretty much instant, hiding the dock away in the overview only ever makes sense when you're screen real-estate constrained (12" laptop) Tiling Assistant, this lets you define custom window snapping zones, its most helpful when you have a mix of landscape/portrait displays and you need more flexibility than the built-in behaviour offers. DDterm, this one isn't essential, but its convenient to have a terminal shade ready to go. On my ThinkPads I'd bind this to the ThinkVantage key to quickly get a terminal up. I used to muck around with themes and icon sets years ago, but Adwaita is pretty inoffensive these days, and dark mode is not an afterthought now.