It's funny to hear that now. Most people I knew back then used Linux on desktop. When Gnome 3 started to be a thing, I don't recall anyone that even had access

It's funny to hear that now. Most people I knew back then used Linux on desktop. When Gnome 3 started to be a thing, I don't recall anyone that even had access to a touchscreen device. And suddenly you had to use touch gestures with mouse, your plugins were gone, menu items were almost gone, you lost possibility to have ANY way to display status. They did all-in on notifications instead. So if you got new mail there was a brief notification and puff... Any indication of pending tasks were gone. No plugin with animation, no tray icon that changed color. No way of telling that your jabber client has something new. I clearly recall how weird it was to forget to reply because for a second you were focused on writing in another window. Who could, did migrate to anything else before any workarounds to those issues popped up (like unofficial tray, MATE). It felt so out of touch back then. The only time I felt that confused were later on windows server when they decided in some editions to cut almost all UI and you had to do that swipe gesture from edge of the screen to show app list. Good luck on multimonitor setup, with a mouse, on RDP connection.