I had the same issues as you at first. The answer is that you don’t use the dock mode when working. Only at startup to organize what you want to do. Even when launching apps, Firefox is docked at first place so WIN + 1 launch it.
Then, it’s mostly Alt + Tab / Alt + ² and spread your work on workspaces (use Ctrl + Alt + Left / Right, Alt + Shift + L/R, Win + Shift + L/R). Your brain will be used to it in no time :)
And when you’re tired and just want to use the mouse and relax, you can still do! Also, I disable animations and set night light the whole day to reduce the eye strain!
Unfortunately, I cannot always predict what I will need, nor do I like having everything opened in advance. Guess on this part my philosophy differs with GNOME’s.
But otherwise I love it, and I hope I’ll figure my way of doing things here!
I don’t open everything at startup neither, and to be honest, I almost never use the dock neither. WIN + write the first letters is more efficient. That’s why I love Gnome, you can use shortcuts for everything. It is clean, still extremely powerful. I used i3/sway for long, and then realized I could do everything the same in a much better polished desktop environment :)
There’s also extensions like “search light” if you don’t want to have the menu full screen when searching (I used to use that, but I don’t need it anymore).
I had the same issues as you at first. The answer is that you don’t use the dock mode when working. Only at startup to organize what you want to do. Even when launching apps, Firefox is docked at first place so WIN + 1 launch it.
Then, it’s mostly Alt + Tab / Alt + ² and spread your work on workspaces (use Ctrl + Alt + Left / Right, Alt + Shift + L/R, Win + Shift + L/R). Your brain will be used to it in no time :) And when you’re tired and just want to use the mouse and relax, you can still do! Also, I disable animations and set night light the whole day to reduce the eye strain!
I see!
Unfortunately, I cannot always predict what I will need, nor do I like having everything opened in advance. Guess on this part my philosophy differs with GNOME’s.
But otherwise I love it, and I hope I’ll figure my way of doing things here!
Night light is a must btw, always used it.
I don’t open everything at startup neither, and to be honest, I almost never use the dock neither. WIN + write the first letters is more efficient. That’s why I love Gnome, you can use shortcuts for everything. It is clean, still extremely powerful. I used i3/sway for long, and then realized I could do everything the same in a much better polished desktop environment :) There’s also extensions like “search light” if you don’t want to have the menu full screen when searching (I used to use that, but I don’t need it anymore).
Aha, I see!
So, GNOME is more keyboard-intensive and is meant to be in many ways similar to a window manager, but with the perks of a full-fledged DE
Exactly! You can use it as a WM or as click-click env!
Thanks, this does provide some insight and also explains why managing many windows in one workspace is a pain in stock Gnome lol
although even then the app menu with a search option would be superior over whatever they have invented, but that’s me grumbling