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Re:Ubuntu 21.10 by TekMol on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:35PM (#28869698)
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 (#28869845)
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 (#28877633)
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.