• @ummthatguy
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    7910 months ago

    While I love the background, the cluttered mass of icons makes my eye twitch. A modicum of organization, please.

    • sino
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      3910 months ago

      The only perfect background is to disable all icons and keep it black

        • @Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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          1710 months ago

          I run a Windows operating system on an m.2 SSD on the latest generation AMD CPU and GeForce graphics card. My name is Patrick Bateman. I’m 27 years old. I believe in taking care of my operating system and a balanced power profile and rigorous maintenance routine. In the morning if my game is a little laggy I’ll put on a memory optimisation program while running benchmarks. I can score 1000 now. After I remove unused programs I use a file clearing tool such as CCleaner. On the desktop I audit all my shortcuts , remove any I haven’t opened for a while and sort the rest into folders. Then I apply any driver or software updates before powering off my PC which I leave off for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use a keyboard cleaning wipe with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your fingers out and makes you type slower. Then screen cleaning, then wiping down my desk mat followed by a final system boot.

        • @jenny_ball
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          -410 months ago

          seriously. you guys are the same freaks that hide all their wires on your workstation for those lame pictures you like posting

          • @Crowfiend
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            10 months ago

            Yeah, imagine having a not-cluttered-as-fuck workstation that looks nice?

            Fucking savages don’t organize their cables.

      • Rob T Firefly
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        610 months ago

        I see a background

        And I want it painted black

        No icons anymore

        I want my desktop black

      • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        110 months ago

        I’ve used and enjoyed that kind of setup a while back, but my new favourite is to have something that rotates different backgrounds. macOS has their dynamic wallpapers which you can set to cycle through different ones on a regular basis, which I really like. I still don’t like having any icons, though.

        On Android, I use Muzei to get a different artwork as my background every day. It’s also very nice.

    • @ickplantOP
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      1810 months ago

      Same. I would go insane with a desktop like that.

    • gregorum
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      1110 months ago

      The icons made your eyes twitch, but the Vista didn’t?

      • @ummthatguy
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        510 months ago

        The lesser of problems, I’d wager. Managed to bypass Vista… and 8. shudders

        • gregorum
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          410 months ago

          Lol, dude should just slip in some skinned-up Linux Mint. Dad’s mind would be blown because OMG it’s so fast now!

            • gregorum
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              10 months ago

              Funny, because this looks a lot like how Longhorn did/was supposed to. Very pretty for its time.

              Longhorn broke my heart, and I haven’t used Windows since (except to play Fallout)

                • gregorum
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                  110 months ago

                  Beta testing Longhorn, and it’s failure, just killed my last ounce of faith in MS. I went and bought a Mac after that, lol.

                  TBH, being into Macs are what got me into UNIX and Linux, though, so that’s something.

                  • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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                    A while back I wanted to make a Longhorn-style fork of Haiku (imo the sweet spot between windows and linux), although I ended up quitting because it was too much work

                    Here are some mockups

      • DaGeek247
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        410 months ago

        You’re sure it’s not 7? I loved the glass that 7 had.

    • peopleproblems
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      310 months ago

      Hah, as if you’d ever see the icons behind the millions of things I have running