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Victoria 🏳️‍⚧️@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl (2026-10-05 05:13:51)
Maybe it's a tad controversial opinion, but I do think having a dock would make GNOME so much more newcomer-friendly.

Basically number 1 complaint I hear is "Wait, where is the dock?", and being real, that was also my complaint when I tried GNOME a couple of times in the past. Lack of dock really throws people off.

Most people either end up downloading dash2dock themselves or they use distro that downloads this extension OOTB, and IMHO it isn't a great experience (going slightly off topic, I think dock!ng is better, although it could handle fullscreen better).

Also, dock, at least in my opinion, really improves quickly switching between windows using mouse.

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💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-10-05 20:48:26)
I have used sway and i3 for years, before that awesomewm, before that jwm, before that gnome ... i did not even know till your post that gnome doesn't have a dock anymore!