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I have the dock on the left of all of my Macs .

First thing I do is pin it to the top right, the way it should be https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/firstrun/opens...

Ubuntu's Unity had the dock on the side - I believe inspired by the unusual 1024x600 screen on the Eee PC.

Always showing?

I do this - and yes, always showing. Makes for better ergonomics when you can aim your mouse trajectory at exactly where you need to be instead of mousing over, waiting for the dock to appear, and then mousing to the specific icon you want.

I just set my dock animation delay to 0. I rarely click icons in the dock though.

I often drag items to the dock to open them in an application other than the default (only the finder let's you select what app to open a file in without doing that).

I also have an issue where if I've got multiple windows from a single app open in different virtual desktops, the only way to get to the other windows from the app is to click the dock icon - it can't be done via keyboard as far as I can tell. (And yes, it's infuriating.)

Not GP, but no, I have the dock on the left, hidden and non-zooming.

Then again my use of the dock is sporadic, mostly for accessing recent downloads.

Yes, always showing, due to decades of Microsoft bugs with their toolbar which would inevitably get stuck showing but masking the underlying window or stuck hidden.

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