[WD-42]

So 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]

No, 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.

[bigyabai]

> Processes with windows associated with them should always be apparent

KDE and GNOME both solve this with a dock, the same way that Windows and macOS solve it.

> It's amusing to see that they've been embraced (if not extended) by the haters.

The haters by-and-large don't use it. Those haters use esoteric tiling WMs that don't bind anything to super by default.

The KDE and GNOME developers have a direct usability goal. With respect to Slashdot's opinions, the Linux desktop would still be stuck in the 90s if we listened to them. Your perspective as a DOS/PowerShell user is not any more valuable, considering you barely use Windows as-is.

[CamperBob2]

KDE and GNOME both solve this with a dock, the same way that Windows and macOS solve it.

Not by default, GNOME doesn't. Try installing Ubuntu. You get nothing but a blank desktop by default. The bar at left only shows shortcuts for launching tasks, not running tasks themselves.

Your perspective as a DOS/PowerShell user is not any more valuable, considering you barely use Windows as-is.

Those advocating an OS with 5% market share might do well to listen to other perspectives once in a while.

[irishcoffee]

Don’t feed the trolls.