Please Help

I posted this on /g/:
Does someone know what's happening?

Hello /g/ it's my first time on here.
I'm having a bit of a problem right now.
Well.
I'll just state the details.

My taskbar isn't visible.
I can't see any of my desktop icons on the screen.

The only thing I can see is my wallpaper.
If I restart my laptop it would be back to normal, but this usually happens after the taskbar goes white and blocky ( kind of like the old windows thing.)

It's been bugging me for a while.
Also I'm only able to access the web right now because Avast is open and I clicked Support then Check FAQ.

The browser closes sometimes.
Please help.
Feel free to ask questions.

>>10
Most titles from big-name publishers, no. The indie game scene seems to support Linux with more enthusiasm, though, and the games included in the Humble Indie Bundle commonly support Linux in some way or another.

You will have to use Linux apps, naturally, like Banshee for your music collection and Evince for PDFs (good!), or LibreOffice for an office suite (bad!). Other apps are multi-platform, like Firefox or Chrome, others are... cultural, mostly optional things, like using vim or Emacs for text-editing, LaTeX, shell programming and the sort.

The UI, particularly that of the desktop, would be completely different, so you would have to adapt, but it's not hard (though I haven't tried Ubuntu's Unity in a while, it always seemed like a mess).