I'm used to gnome, and I currently tried out garuda. It's a tad weird as there's no app bar anywhere with "running apps". If I execute it again it just starts a new one. Which is strange behaviour.

It works quite well for what it should do, but I'm feeling a bit lost in it. It also feels if I'd want to do something else ( like coding ) that it wouldn't be very intuitive.

The nobara gnome screenshot looks similar ( no app drawer ). Are you running it in gnome or kde/official?