u/Beginning-Hour-1143

Ok here goes - this is embarrassing for me to write but...

I have used operating systems since my first boss in tech handed me a stack of 3.5" disks to install windows 3.1 on a 386.

I finally switched permanently to Linux Mint back in Feb after some aborted tries over the years and mostly I am loving it.

However I just cannot with panels - something about the concept of how they are configured is doing my head in and AI seems just as confused.

I find myself going in and out of the same dialog box 20 times looking for a setting.

At this point I am seriously considering another distro or desktop but if someone can point me to some sort of doc or vid that cracks the code I would appreciate it.