In vanilla GNOME, you can turn on Window List system extension which is like Windows’ task bar and shows your open apps. It also has a system tray, if that’s what you mean. Obviously you can add a lot of other stuff with user extensions.
I also use GNOME pretty vanilla and like it that way. I add the Tiling Shell extension though, just to snap windows to corners and not just sides. That’s the one thing I’d prefer.
In vanilla GNOME, you can turn on Window List system extension which is like Windows’ task bar and shows your open apps. It also has a system tray, if that’s what you mean. Obviously you can add a lot of other stuff with user extensions.
I also use GNOME pretty vanilla and like it that way. I add the Tiling Shell extension though, just to snap windows to corners and not just sides. That’s the one thing I’d prefer.