> Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows. My GNOME on Ubuntu has min/max icons for the windows. What am I missing? > Second, it has a top bar th

> Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows. My GNOME on Ubuntu has min/max icons for the windows. What am I missing? > Second, it has a top bar that is like on a mobile phone and has no real functionality on desktop(ie. it shows time and not much else). Time and system tray icons (wi-fi, account stuff, etc). Yes. I added some extension that turned it into a global menu bar, because I'm used to macOS and I like it that way. I also have my workspaces (virtual desktop) switcher up there. > yet again, you will find there is yet another third party extension what will allow you to transform this hidden dock into constantly visible dock I have a visible dock. It was originally on the left side of the screen but I moved it to the bottom and disabled the setting that made it span the width of the screen. I didn't need to install a third-party extension for this? > I tried KDE as well. That was issue-less from the get-go, like any desktop environment is supposed to be. Then... use KDE, if it fits your tastes better? With Linux, you have that choice. I am not excited by GNOME, but it works pretty well and is both easy to and very highly-configurable. I wonder how many of your complaints are due to how it differs from the desktop environment you're used to. Also, you can customize all this -- a lot of the time with just GNOME Tweaks and no third-party extensions.