I’m a big fan of GNOME for the opposite reason, I like the default workflow and use it completely vanilla. If you’re going to tweak it you may as well use KDE, but the vanilla GNOME workflow is actually pretty great if you embrace it fully as it is.
In vanilla GNOME, you can turn on Window List system extension which is like Windows’ task bar and shows your open apps. It also has a system tray, if that’s what you mean. Obviously you can add a lot of other stuff with user extensions.
I also use GNOME pretty vanilla and like it that way. I add the Tiling Shell extension though, just to snap windows to corners and not just sides. That’s the one thing I’d prefer.
I’m a big fan of GNOME for the opposite reason, I like the default workflow and use it completely vanilla. If you’re going to tweak it you may as well use KDE, but the vanilla GNOME workflow is actually pretty great if you embrace it fully as it is.
Does it have taskbar icons yet?
No need
In vanilla GNOME, you can turn on Window List system extension which is like Windows’ task bar and shows your open apps. It also has a system tray, if that’s what you mean. Obviously you can add a lot of other stuff with user extensions.
I also use GNOME pretty vanilla and like it that way. I add the Tiling Shell extension though, just to snap windows to corners and not just sides. That’s the one thing I’d prefer.