I thought the vertical left bar is a "dock".
It does not display the titles of the open windows and does not let me arrange the entries. That are the two problems I described.
It feels like this is meant to be used on a mobile device rather than on a desktop. On a desktop it makes me way less productive compared to a normal taskbar.
Re:Ubuntu 21.10
by Isthatablackgsd on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:45PM
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It is the same thing, all OS taskbar does not always behave similarly. That is Unity DE unfortunately, they are trying to "Fisher-Price" everything in there.
If you want a better taskbar/dock, try different DE and see how you like it.
Re:Ubuntu 21.10
by ArclightMat on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:46AM
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That's not Unity, that's GNOME with extensions mimicking Unity.
Also instead of changing desktop environments, he could install the clean/stock GNOME session and then add Dash to Panel + Arc Menu, which would give it a Windows-like taskbar.
If your desktop look like similarly to the image you posted, the soft black vertical bar on the far left side of the screen is the taskbar. I think you are using Unity as your DE which is default DE for Ubuntu.
You can change to different DE if Unity is not your liking. There is a couple variants you can use, you can find them in the package manager and install it from there.