@AnActOfCreation You can re-enable it in the Taskbar settings, though (as you also can hide Copilot the same way?).

I didn't even realize that there was a button there before. I always just hit Win-D.

And this is why I should switch to linux? I guess any chance a linux user is going to use to tell you they use linux is good enough.

Honestly, people who are still on windows at this point deserve this shit. 99% of corporate IT users are completely unwilling to stand up to their company's IT policies, no matter how disruptive those are to the workflow - and I am not even talking about operating system choice here.

Since 95% and more of my colleagues in all prior jobs refused to stand up for the most basic necessities (such as a proper email program, or webmail access while NOT on a corporate device), then I don't give a fuck about them suffering from Windows while I happily left corporate IT for a service contract and work on my self-managed device.