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.

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It's improving fast, it's true, but I still can't prefer it over, e.g. LaTeX.

For starters, it's still quite ugly, both in its interface and rendering. This last point drives me away.

The UI is quite clunky, toolbars are hard to explore by themselves, as are the massive menus endemic to office suites. Though this seems to be a Mac OS X-specific ailment, you couldn't paste text in the search bar the normal way; Cmd-V pasted within the document body.

I was also jarred that the toolbars appear based on context in a way which displaces other controls, particularly the search bar. That one should stay put, it's a central piece of functionality which you use at all times, in conjunction with any other content-specific control.

It still, disappointingly, undersells its document styling system, which could have been something great and which was in place way before MS Office pushed an usable one.

Impress seems to have improved greatly, it has antialias which is worth a damn now, without which it was simply unusable. The lack of a good styling UI still works against it, though, which is a shame, and the default styles leave to be desired.

Still, it seems to hold future now that it's unconstrained by Sun back then, or Oracle now.

(and I have no complaints about Calc, it's a very good spreadsheet app)