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GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
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Not a permanent dock. Docks predate Apple any way.
GNOME 3 was officially launched a few months after OS X Lion, but combined these things into one first.
NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.
Other docks existed even before, of course.
The Dock comes from NeXTSTEP, the operating system Steve Jobs left Apple to develop back in 1986... GNOME was announced in 1997 so I don't get your argument.