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How do I bring your app to the foreground if I can't see an icon anywhere? I just installed Ubuntu for the first time a few weeks ago and genuinely don't see h
by CamperBob2 5mo ago
How do I bring your app to the foreground if I can't see an icon anywhere? I just installed Ubuntu for the first time a few weeks ago and genuinely don't see how people are supposed to use it, coming from a Windows/Mac background. How does a Linux user know what's running, without going to a terminal and running top?
The lack of desktop UI affordances in the leading "user-friendly" Linux distribution should be seen as a five-alarm fire by anyone interested in promoting wider Linux acceptance on the desktop. There are reasons why Linux can't get past low single-digit adoption no matter how badly Apple and Microsoft screw their users, and I'm sure the half-assed desktop UI is one of them.
- WD-42 5mo agoDid you try pressing the super key
- curt15 5mo agoMost desktop users aren't keyboard wizards.
- bigyabai 5mo ago> How do I bring your app to the foreground if I can't see an icon anywhere? On GNOME? Alt-tab, super overview, or click the dock icon. It's literally not any more complex than multitasking on an iPad.
- CamperBob2 5mo ago[flagged]
- WD-42 5mo agoOh please. The super key is the windows key. You come across as someone who has never used a computer before.
- kskdkwjdkwkkds 5mo ago[flagged]
- rhrtjfjjghf 5mo agoYou come across as someone who’s never talked to a normal human being
- CamperBob2 5mo ago[flagged]
- WD-42 5mo agoSo you really couldn't figure out what "Super key" meant, even with context? I feel like you are being hyperbolic. This isn't magical hidden Linux knowledge. Honestly, if not being able to find what applications you have running, and not even trying pressing the large button on your keyboard with the windows logo on it was so traumatizing, you might want to just avoid Linux entirely.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoNo, I didn't realize that the "Super key" was the Windows key, and no, I didn't think to try it. I never use the Windows key myself, because it's never needed. I'm either in a DOS or PS box, or if I'm working at the desktop, the taskbar gives me all the affordances I need including a 'Type here to search' box. Key point is that I don't want to press any keys to maintain my awareness of what's running on the machine. Processes with windows associated with them should always be apparent in one way or another. Ubuntu got the less-useful part of the taskbar right -- the quick-launch icons on the column at left -- while failing to do the important thing, which is to show, well, tasks. I remember when they first started putting Windows keys on keyboards. If you think AI pisses people off, LOL... you weren't reading Slashdot and other Linux-adjacent sites when those keys started showing up. It's amusing to see that they've been embraced (if not extended) by the haters.
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- bigyabai 5mo ago> I don't know what the 'super' key in GNOME is, and don't care This is like having someone tell you that they refuse to use an iPad because the home button confuses them. That's your choice. I've used GNOME professionally for 7 years now, and I've taught kids to use it at robotics workshops. If you can believe it, many of them are unable to use macOS and Windows at all, because their school districts don't buy them laptops anymore. I'm sorry that GNOME isn't a carbon copy of your favorite OS, but it's not hard to use whatsoever.
- antonvs 5mo agoYou might be happier with a consumer OS.
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- helterskelter 5mo ago> I don't know what the 'super' key in GNOME is Clearly you're not a golfer.
- rav3ndust 5mo agoif you're running ubuntu, and the app uses a systray icon, you just click on the systray icon. ubuntu has appindicators out of the box.