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Bottom taskbar on laptop screens is a no-no.

I disagree. I prefer bottom taskbar on my laptop.

BUT... on my desktop where I use two 27" screens, I vastly prefer having my taskbars being on the "inside" edges where the screens meet. I'm probably not in the majority, though. But just, don't take away my choice!

I also strongly prefer a bottom taskbar on my laptop.

Amen, I use vertical bars on all my screens, even desktop screens. It is the aspect ratio...

Auto-hide. I like the taskbar and dock at the bottom of the screen, but gotta have auto-hide.

I already thought about it and tried, and the experience is even worse than with just bottom.

That's an odd opinion. I definitely prefer bottom taskbar on laptop screens. Side taskbar on any screen is a no-no.

I'm a left align convert. Simply because there's little vertical real estate on wide monitors compared to horizontal. Why take up valuable space?

Lets you full screen apps a lot cleaned too, but that's just my opinion.

I want more apps open. On a wide screen I'll have two apps open in side-by-side half-screen. A side taskbar makes the two apps imbalanced from the center of the screen while a bottom taskbar changes the basic geometry in a symmetrical way.

Fair enough. I guess I don't care as much about everything being perfectly symmetrical.

It is a rational option. It takes much less space on the side while still showing my running apps, time, tray and notification counter.

I usually too many windows open, just like too many tabs, and I don't like seeing them grouped because that requires an extra step to click the right window.

All these windows don't fit bottom/top Taskbar and therefore I put my Taskbar left or right of screen.

you can change the location of the icons to the left, if the centered layout is what you mean

The taskbar itself is what is being referred to, I believe. Having the taskbar mounted to one side of the screen allows for a bit more vertical space to be used by apps, which is pretty nice on aspect ratios that limit vertical space, i.e. 16:9. It’s the way I currently run my taskbar and I can’t really imagine having to use it locked to the bottom of the screen.

I think they want a vertical bar versus horizontal, I prefer this setup for laptops too, e.g. I have the dock on macOS on the left and Ubuntu/Gnome it is the default. It makes a huge difference when vertical screen estate is at a premium, as is the case with many laptops.

I would too but mac does it in a pretty annoying way compared to say ubuntu unity.

With multiple monitors, it snaps to the side most one you have plugged in regardless of your primary screen.

I get there's a lot of dragging and dropping involved with the bar, but in Unity it let you set a threshold for mouse speed to limit you going to another monitor.

Just let me put it on the side and do that if I'm dragging something, it's not too difficult.

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