Personally I can't stand the dock paradigm...no way to tell if a program is running or not at a glance, and it's not easy to switch between one application with

Personally I can't stand the dock paradigm...no way to tell if a program is running or not at a glance, and it's not easy to switch between one application with multiple windows. A lot can be changed even if it requires third party add-ons, but I'd say it's the least intuitive OS there is.