ummthatguy, While I love the background, the cluttered mass of icons makes my eye twitch. A modicum of organization, please.
gregorum, The icons made your eyes twitch, but the Vista didn’t?
DaGeek247, You're sure it's not 7? I loved the glass that 7 had.
SubArcticTundra, It is imo
gregorum, The task bar on 7 Looked Way better
ummthatguy, The lesser of problems, I’d wager. Managed to bypass Vista… and 8. shudders
gregorum, Lol, dude should just slip in some skinned-up Linux Mint. Dad’s mind would be blown because OMG it’s so fast now!
SubArcticTundra, gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma
(currently daily driving this)
gregorum, 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)
SubArcticTundra, Agreed, I am also a Longhorn enthusiast
gregorum, 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, (edited ) 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
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b7234d19-03b3-48bb-9170-c9fc6bbc9dd7.png
gregorum, Now I’m trying to imagine Haiku, but with that Aero glass theme.
peopleproblems, Hah, as if you’d ever see the icons behind the millions of things I have running
sinokon, The only perfect background is to disable all icons and keep it black
XCraftMC, Okay, Patrick Bateman
jenny_ball, seriously. you guys are the same freaks that hide all their wires on your workstation for those lame pictures you like posting
Crowfiend, Yeah, imagine having a not-cluttered-as-fuck workstation that looks nice?
Fucking savages don’t organize their cables.
jenny_ball, exactly lolll
Aurenkin, 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.
rob_t_firefly, I see a background
And I want it painted black
No icons anymore
I want my desktop black
GissaMittJobb, 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.
sentient_loom, Yeah what is this 2006?
ickplant, Same. I would go insane with a desktop like that.
TarantulaFudge, Most of the time my desktop is covered, so I use folders on the toolbar
MelastSB, What in the world
Blue_Morpho, Right click desktop, create new, folder: Junk
Drag drop everything but that chrome icon into Junk.
sentient_loom, Woop
parpol, Firefox is a much easier icon to find.
umbrella, firefox, and get an adblocker on it
BottleOfAlkahest, It looks like he has chrome pinned to his task bar in the bottom left.
Kolanaki, There is also a second desktop icon in the upper left, in the 4th column.
TwoBeeSan, You cannot make enough shortcuts for the elderly.
CaptKoala, You can, but a desktop composed of entirely shortcuts to chrome I suspect wouldn’t be enough.
benderbeerman, If you really wanted to have a good time, you could screen-shot everything as is and make that the desktop, then put all the real shortcuts into a folder on the desktop anywhere and watch the fun ensue
Eta: for extra entertainment, don’t forget to hide the Taskbar
GreedyYardHippos, The shortcut was at the tip of the penis
Thrickles, I understood that reference.
TastyWheat, I’d nearly forgotten all about Vista.
jol, This looks like windows 7
AtariDump, The start button whose circle is larger than the start menu gives it away that it’s probably Windows Vista
jol, You could shrink it in 7 to do that to if I recall
ManniSturgis, Didn’t think about icons being on a grid, eh? Whoever made this had to turn it off to place the Chrome icon there. Amateur move
HenriVolney, Bonus point if you replace Chrome with Mozilla!
BenchpressMuyDebil, Insallah my brother in the Firefox jihad
sebsch, Just change the icon to the chrome ones.
Spendrill, Needs this to be in the middle.
sirico, Div mentioned
blind3rdeye, Cool picture. But Chrome? Why?
Hiro8811, This meme is old as fuck, he has GTA SA and windows 7
DreamlandLividity, GTA SA is dope even today :D
Hiro8811, I know, finished the story again a few days ago
DreamlandLividity, Its been a long time since I finished the story, I mostly played multiplayer
Malfeasant, I remember that being the one where you can headshot someone and their head explodes with a spurt of blood and their arms reach up and flail around briefly before they die… Wonder why they didn’t keep that around with the later sequels? Oh and finding the double ended purple dildo in the police station…
orphiebaby, Not all the pointing people are old memes.
HEXN3T, It’s like a “water this way” sign in the middle of a desert. The better solution is to get Librewolf and replace the icon with a Chrome one.
Custodian1623, Good way to end up with passwords written on sticky notes
volvoxvsmarla, Can you share the background?
ickplant, Here - you should be able to download the full res by clicking “Download the original image”
volvoxvsmarla, Thank you! I don’t know what I’ll put in the middle yet, that’s such a big decision
ickplant, Godspeed.
AA5B, Instead of fixing the symptom, maybe you could address the underlying problem of all that clutter on the desktop. ….or pin it somewhere it won’t be encroached by new files
Nelots, It’s pinned to the taskbar. If my own father is anything to go by, trying to clean up their desktop is a futile and temporary effort.
GreyEyedGhost, There are at least twice as many icons s on his desktop as on mine!
ILikeBoobies, It is pinned to the taskbar
Also the first icon in column 4
Master, All of those files look very important and need to stay where they are…
MonkderDritte, …then he complains i made a mess.
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