I used to use GNOME with minimal plugins (like adding a tea timer or my local ip to the top bar), until they changed the vertical layout. It was a while ago when I was going though some older issues I posted on the GNOME issue tracker and I realized I haven’t used the desktop switching feature since they changed it. They move horizontally now and it just doesn’t work for me on 3 monitors. It’s like the adjacent monitors switch into each other, but they don’t.
Now I use dash to dock. I tried a plugin to reinstate vertical desktops but it’s buggy as hell.
Also, GNOME doesn’t remember window states and positions anymore since the latest version, which annoys the hell out of me. I feel like every new version is equal parts forwards and backwards. Things get better and worse.
One final fuck you to the guy who decided that dead keys and diacritics should be shown while you’re creating them. That’s decades of muscle memory out the window and switching between other os’s just got worse because of it.