But also for as long a I can remember I have played the game of "what app is forcing my taskbar up"... Usually while I'm trying to hit something that the taskbar is now obscuring (like Firefox's search box, or half of a Teams notification. It is absolutely maddening because I have to click every open app to see if it has anything to report before the taskbar goes down again. And it seems to be getting worse lately I have the feeling.
So I want to ask you HNers., how do you treat the Windows taskbar? Am I missing something? Why is the responsible app never flashing? Why can't it flash just the upper pixel line so I know something is up but it doesn't obscure anything. I have the feeling I am a very small minority of taskbar hiders and nobody really cares about this setting.
In comparison, I never have this issue in Ubuntu, the taskbar is there when I hit the Win/Super key and not there when I leave it alone. How hard can it be?
Then the OS I loved got progressively worse. Poorly implemented taskbar autohide went from being a prominent issue to hardly a concern compared to other stuff.
I said goodbye to the OS I once loved and left.
Put it on the side and don't use autohide. The concept is good, but the Windows implementation has been so bad for so long it's just not worth dealing with.