None of this is meant to argue, only discuss. Any suggestion isn't an attack on your point, just a workaround. (And I only have one for point 4.)I actually largely agree with you.
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There are a lot of reasons I wish Zorin would adopt KDE Plasma (as an option). If this really is a GNOME issue, I'm adding that to my list.
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GNOME again. As I recall, the last time I tested TUXEDO OS, there was a prominent notification item on the taskbar when a notification was waiting. It's possible your apps could do better too, though--I know I've seen apps in Zorin bounce their icons when a notification was waiting, or put a badge on the icon. Still not as good as a prominent notification item, I agree.
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I got nothin'. I certainly understand why a Spotify user would want it, but where's the line on what services they should support? I feel like a community extension is the right way here if Spotify won't provide their own solution. (And we know they won't.) Providing convenient controls for a service should fall on the service, not the OS, but since so few care to target Linux users...
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I agree to a massive extent. I've felt this way for ages, but it compounded when Zorin updated to the 6.8 kernel. (I'm glad they did, honestly, I've considered other distributions just for newer system components!) That update was incompatible with the 545 drivers, which is what many of us had, and the update killed performance. I'm curious about your only having up to 535 available though. I was on 545, and I switched to that from the Additional Drivers tab of the Software & Updates utility.
A workaround (which shouldn't be necessary in my opinion) is to manually add the PPA for the driver. Instructions can be found here, though you may or may not need the first step of uninstalling all things Nvidia. That's included because I was seriously broken when this help was offered to me: