I gave it a fair shot for about a year, using vanilla GNOME with no extensions. While I eventually became somewhat proficient, it’s just not good.
Switching between a few workspaces looks cool, but once you have 10+ programs open, it becomes an unmanageable hell that requires memorizing which workspace each application is in and which hotkey you have each application set to.
How is this better than simply having icons on the taskbar? By the way, the taskbar still exists in GNOME! It’s just empty and seems to take up space at the top for no apparent reason other than displaying the time.
Did I do something wrong? Is it meant for you to only ever have a couple applications open?
I’d love to hear from people that use it and thrive in it.
I find it a lot better on a laptop for focused workflows, but I don’t like it on desktop.
Huh, funny, I wonder why that is. I just realized that happens to me too, I still have it vanilla on the pc and it doesnt bother me as much.
Maybe cause the bar at the top causes you to slightly tilt your neck down a bit more on the laptop and that’s a non issue on monitors?
Maybe cause with multiple monitors there isn’t as much fiddling finding the right workspace?
That’s a very interesting point.
edit: I just realized I completely misunderstood what you said, you said the opposite of how I interpreted it, my bad.