My favorite program for linux is yakuake. It is a drop down menu with hidden uses. It and Force quite are the two most useful linux items for me.
The main use is it acts as a secondary program for a single desktop that allows you to access the desktop with a quick button push. This is more useful when you also use text to update the os. But I have the same issues with getting to the desktop without remembering windows + D. This is amazing in a single desktop setup. And as I just found out today just as useful in a multidesktop setup as the same problem happens with fullscreen or other programs in each desktop.
2. Force quite is self explanetory for the most part. Instead of openining your task manager you can hit ctrl+x(or other shortcuts) and it turns the cursor into an X and then you can click on the program to make it force quit fast. Great for troublesome games in linux where things like to break. Similarly likely useful in windows in a bad situation. It might be a nice default program for when needed. Sometimes in linux you often freeze where you can't get to the take manager and this recovers the desktop without a restart.
As you may have noticed these are heavily useful for video games. Possibly not quite as useful in windows but could be nice in a bad situation. (A little linux gaming wisdom.)
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The other nice feature for linux is the ability to make task bar show it's performance stats on the shortcut bar so you can see all of your cpu hdd gpu stats in graph form. I was using fedora 42 with mate desktop and had this feature. it's amazing to have and is missing in the windows environment by default. I think something with a we base program had this, but I can't figure out how to use it and it would be nice in the default taskbar.
BTW, this would work on multiple graphs that were next to each other if selected in setting with various display settings. You could move it around a task bar as desired and lock in place etc. It was pretty basic. But pretty nice to have. You get used to seeing the graph.
Also, you cannot put your task bar on the top or sides of the screen. In mate desktop you could fit them anywhere you wanted basically around the edges of each screen/windows/monitor. This is also missing from windows.
