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Can I see your desktop home screen

Saurabh Sharma on February 21, 2018

As always, I'm interested in what other guys are doing with their tools. This time I just wanted to see your desktop home screen. Here is mine

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Stephanie Handsteiner • Edited

Mine is typical for a Mac user I guess? :D

Desktop

I just don't like having files and folders on my desktop.

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Julien Calixte

Awesome! Where can we find this wallpaper?

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Stephanie Handsteiner
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Julien Calixte

Thanks! Soo cool!

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Fahad Wajed

Thanks! :)

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Elx

i think i'm gonna try this "clean" look, now that i see several ppl sharing...

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Ben Halpern • Edited

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Nikola Brežnjak

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Moe

that's good motivational wallpaper

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tiff

Can you share that wallpaper?

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Nikola Brežnjak

Sure, here it is: i.imgur.com/wj27idb.jpg

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Fadly Setiawan • Edited

I'm afraid to using it, my boss has different interpretation.
I heard he likes kind of person who's work smarter than harder hehe,,

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Mac Siri

Another typical Mac user here. To Space!

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Saket Gupte

Love the wallpaper. Where can I find it?

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Mac Siri

I can't find the original source on DeviantArt anymore ☹️ but here it is imgur.com/a/q9Ocl

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Lewis Menelaws

Here is my desktop! I have a vertical monitor for my code and the other is just regular :). I use Ubuntu desktop. I am thinking about changing to a different distro if anyone has different suggestions.

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NoneTy

Give Manjaro KDE a try. You won’t regret it.

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Fahad Wajed

Wow! Where can I get this wallpaper? :D

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Lewis Menelaws

It's made by DigitalOcean's illustrators. Extremely talented people. Here is an imgur link with every single one they have done (including the java one you see here).

imgur.com/a/q6i58?utm_content=buff...

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Tamás
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Fahad Wajed

Thanks, guys! :)

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z0al

Ubuntu 16.04

simple

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Dian Fay

I use a tiling window manager (i3gaps) so I don't have a home screen, it's just a blank reddish space until I start something.

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Konstantin

I want to move to Japan, and the wallpaper reminds me of this

wallpaper

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krisaore

wallpaper url please?

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simo

desktop

Gnome3 + Tint2, no idea how to put icons on my desktop ..
Wallpaper downloaded from alpha.wallhaven.cc/

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d3rrila

Hit the super key, type Tweaks, there'll be a Tab called Desktop, you can activate desktop icons there (just in case that wasn't a joke :) )

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Kenan

Sure
desktop

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Umesh Kumar

that looks like mine

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smoke fumus • Edited

Yeah, sure.
cd man day

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Jimmy Bastos

That bugs my mind... No desktop icons! Please....
Screenshot

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Joshua Bemenderfer

Deepin Icons + GNOME Shell? Good choice!

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Jimmy Bastos

Thanks! I'm also using the Arc GTK theme

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Jimmy Bastos

Thank you!! I'm also using the arc-gtk-theme package...

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Dean Whittaker  🦈

Nice, what hardware you using?

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Waren Gonzaga

wow ubuntu!

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Rakheem Dewji • Edited

Love the minimal look.

Desktop

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Tamás

How did you do it? :D Its cool

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Rakheem Dewji

It is a combination of small tweaks:

You'll need Rainmeter (for the time display), translucentTB (see-through taskbar) and here some links for the wallpaper and the icons that I made.

Wallpaper: dropbox.com/s/zqowm3dpcts5n37/5780...

Icons: dropbox.com/sh/rutvborqxc0pcre/AAC...

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Tamás

Thank you! :)

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TanVirH008

Your icons are pretty cool. I downloaded them from the link that you gave. Can you provide the link where you got them from?

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Rakheem Dewji

I can't seem to find the link but for most of them I had to download the png icon and then I just made it white and used those for the icons.

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andrea • Edited

Arch Linux

No desktop enviroment for me, I'm comfortable with only a window manager and plenty of CLI tools!

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Johan

Nice

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Jess Lee

Taipei 101 😻

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Waren Gonzaga

Arch linux is sexy!

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Misael Taveras

Love it!!!!!! Can you please share the wallpaper?

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andrea

Yes, here it is it's .bg.jpg

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lynn

This is the ideal desktop home screen. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Tajeddine Alaoui

Do you have another social networks so we could talk ?

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Moe

I love me some Ubuntu.

my desktop

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Leandro Ramos

I miss Unity DE.

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Hélio oliveira

I still use Unity

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Moe

The difference wasn't that big to me

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Lewis Menelaws

I love it too!!

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Alex Oladele

I love Kingdom Hearts

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Evan Oman • Edited

I try to keep mine pretty empty, just a bit of clutter here. Also I had to join the "Starman" fad.

Desktop

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dbc2201

Awesome one!

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Meghan (she/her)

Ahead of your time :D
cc @elonmusk

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Raymel Francisco • Edited

Because smoking rockets are cool.

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Truýnh

I like this pic, can you share ^

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Raymel Francisco
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Truýnh

Thanks ❤️

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Franco Bruña • Edited

Love me some Gnome3 =)
gnome3 + plano theme

Artist deviantart

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Daniel Alexandre

Love the wallpaper. Where can I find it?

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Franco Bruña • Edited

You can get it at the artist's deviantart link i provided

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Daniel Alexandre

oh! thanks!!! :D

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Enno Rehling (恩諾) • Edited

My work laptop is all screenshots of bugs, one small folder of stuff, and a case-sensitive volume. My desktop at home is a lot messier than this (and my actual desk is a nightmare).

Work Desktop

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ilya alexander s.

man, I love this \m/
and once in a while I create a folder titled exodus_desktop_YYMMDD and move all the clutter in it :D

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CodeDream

My cool desktop
Cool desktop

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Daniel Alexandre

Love the wallpaper. Where can I find it?

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Nay Linn Ko 🧗‍♂️

Is it Fedora? Really beautiful!

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CodeDream

It's Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome + ARC OSX + Flat remix icons + Plank

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Johan • Edited

Old screenshot, Archlinux + i3wm

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yunfan • Edited

i am using i3wm too :D

thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i...

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Adnan Rahić • Edited

Pretty standard Ubuntu 16.04 :)

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Namc

That wallpaper is prettaaay!! Where can I get it :D

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Adnan Rahić

Here you go. Enjoy! :)

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Matheus Calegaro • Edited

Here it is
bleh

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Anderson Severo

which package do you use for this application bar on the top?

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Matheus Calegaro

It’s called Plank. Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu (or any other Debian-based distro):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install plank

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Anderson Severo

Nice, it's more beautiful than the Plank I've seen before. I'll try it on again, thanks!

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Matheus Calegaro

Cool! I forgot to mention that the icons I’m using are from the Numix Circle package, you should try it too, it looks pretty good with Plank 😬

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Beeblebrox

Cinnamon rules

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Ethan • Edited

Here is mine: (Falcon Heavy 😍)

My desktop

You may be wondering how my Desktop is so clean... Well, I use this command (for Mac only):

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false;killall Finder

It means that all the stuff on your Desktop will no longer show up! (but still be accessible from Finder)

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fasil

thanks

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Saurabh Sharma

Windows usually have left click menu for them.

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Eric Curtin • Edited

Low ram usage, super stable, full of developer tools. xubuntu is the one for me :)

xubuntu

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Amit Merchant • Edited

I'm a little late to the party but here's my homescreen:

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Saurabh Sharma

the party is still ON!

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Beeblebrox

hey that's mine!!!

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devangvaidya

Can you please share this wallpaper. It's amazing :)

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Mickey

The artist's dribble: Mikael Gustafsson
And the background: Also from dribble

BTW found it by googling the image that Amit shared :D

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endetti

That's all. Simplicity is the essence of happiness.

ss

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Leandro Ramos

I need this iconset :O please help me!

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I'm boring. I find the desktop picture distracts me. So here you go. Solid grey. Old school.

A boring desktop picture

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fgiraldi

Here is mine. I'm affraid I love her.
 photo Sin nombre_zpsiyhwuv1r.jpg

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Andrei Damian-Fekete

NetBeans, yay!
IE is still there?
And calc.exe too? I find google better than calc.exe.
You have Chrome and FF on both desktop and taskbar. Why?

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fgiraldi

Lol, I agree, it looks like a mess. Right now, netBeans is my IDE. I'm trying Visual Studio Code, but the majority of my work is developed under Windows and, I kinda like it. Besides that, we don't use the most top-end technogolies (we don't even use git), so it works for me as is.
Calc is just a fast solution bringer. It's a custom.
Regarding to CH and FF, I used to use FF as my personal web browser and CH as my development browser. I loved FF extensions in his time. Now things has changed, but FF still remembers lots of my pswds. I'm migrating everything to CH but it will take some time. By now, I still use boths, but Chrome is gaining terrain.

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Devran Ünal • Edited

"Crap" is the new Desktop.

Plain Desktop with 3 Icons

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Andrea Pivetta • Edited

Here's mine!

img

Maybe the overview is just a bit more interesting :D
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d3rrila

Mine's even more boring :D

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Kevin Paul Kalis • Edited

desk

Slapped in a random dark wallpaper to make my launcher bar not be the default purple. I rarely put anything on the desktop dir.

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Muhammad Anwari L

the knight seems cool. where did you get the wallpaper?

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Ethan

Use the command:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false;killall Finder

To hide all those icons.

You're welcome.

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Suraj Pal Singh

Alright, so seeing the date of this post I'm very late to the party, but anyway, this is mine.

Bspwm Desktop

I don't use and desktop environment, but just a window manager (bspwm).

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Saurabh Sharma

Aww, that's nice

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Suraj Pal Singh

Ah... Thank You!

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Bigyan Dhital • Edited

Yes, Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones

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Paren29

could you provide the link and share your wallpaper ?

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Bigyan Dhital

here you go

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Lavinia • Edited

I just love Vegeta

Vegeta

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dbc2201

Over 9000! 😂

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Julian Salas • Edited

Awesome picture by the way Super Saiyan God is the only way to Windows go fast jejeje 😂

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Ash

desktop

Needless to say, I don't like having anything at all on my desktop. I want to bask in the glory of whatever background I put :3 my linux distros same way.

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Mickey • Edited

Beginner Dev here :D.
Background name: Firewatch Arc
Theme Arc by niivui
Home screen consists of some rainmeter skins - Lano-Visualizer and Nougat Clock. Program for transparent taskbar is TranslucentTB
My desktop Arc

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Eryou Hao

wow, LOL is very cool~

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Kasey Speakman

You can easily imagine mine. It is a black screen with no icons.

I pretty much never see my desktop, so there's no need to waste any memory/compute resources to render pictures, or to put icons there which never get touched. I have very frequently used apps pinned to task bar (about 6 programs). Semi-frequently is pinned to the start menu. Less frequently than that, I just search. I didn't intentionally structure things this way, it just naturally settled into that.

When I was a PC tech, I would periodically reformat my computer and start over. So I learned not to get too invested in my computer setups.

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Peter Kim Frank • Edited

I almost never see my laptop's desktop. I tend to either cmd+tab through my open programs, use Alfred to launch apps, or rely on Finder to open/view/move files. I honestly can't remember the last time I viewed the normal "desktop."

That said, I do use a second monitor both at home and at the office. I used to have Tweetdeck open at all times, but ended up finding it too distracting. Now I only use the second monitor when I have specific ad-hoc work that helps make my workflow more efficient (usually doing something in another browser window, Excel, etc).

I now like to have a clean / minimalist / dark background on the second monitor, since it's squarely in my line of sight all day. I use a dark wood background I found online. The only program I usually have open is a simple Timer app. If I'm ever lacking motivation to do something, I'll usually "challenge" myself to make as much progress as I can in — say — 15 minutes, which helps break me out of the rut.

My desktop background

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Richard Bukovansky

I second that... So I never understood the fascination about desktops... 🤷🏻‍♂️

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rhymes

Here it is

desktop

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Evan Oman

Hieronymus Bosch ftw! I have spent hours on this site exploring the details of that painting.

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rhymes

Ah ah Evan you made my day! Thank you!

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Angel Mambel • Edited

i am from venezuela. this is my work desktop.

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Angel Mambel

I cant send printscreem :v

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Phani Rithvij

Looks dope. Share the wallpaper 😌?

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Leandro Ramos • Edited

You can use Markdown to show it:

![Your image title](URL to your image)
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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I'm using a stock Mac wallpaper 🙈

Andy's wallpaper

I've never gone and actually putting up a cooler wallpaper, but I always appreciate those who do.

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Parth Gajjar • Edited

This kid put smile on my face every time i open my desktop :p

desktop

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Saurabh Sharma

is it ubuntu 16.04 with custom icons

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Parth Gajjar

ubuntu 16.04 with Arc Theme and Flat Remix icon

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Caigan Fuego

my desktop was hidden deep under the open programs, and the last time i saw it that close was in november or something. but my windows pc's desktop is a lot more popular: i hoard all the files i work with on the right monitor so at least the right monitor is always free of open windows.

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abelncm • Edited

Yes you can, here's my Ubuntu 17.10

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey, you can use a Markdown image like this:

![alt-text](img url here)
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
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abelncm

thank you

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Boanerges Aleman Meza • Edited

Mine is for (hopefully) welcoming LGBTQ folks
rainbowish

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Joshua Bemenderfer • Edited

KDE 5 + Latte Dock

Going for a hybrid GNOME Shell / Unity look.

Me Desktop

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tiff • Edited

Clean mostly but I like it.

desktop

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Ricardo Gouveia

I don't like icons on my desktop either, but I place ebooks that I have to read on it. It forces me to read to get a cleaner desktop haha.

my-desktop

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krisaore

great, may you share the wallpaper?

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Ricardo Gouveia

I'm affraid I can't. I use unsplash wallpaper for mac, so this is a random image from there. You can check unsplash.com/ to download it or check all images available.

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Mac Siri

This is weirdly pleasurable to look at.

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Dave Jacoby

Linux
Windows

I use IFTTT and Dropbox to grab my most recent Instagram pic, and have command-line programs to set the desktop to an arbitrary JPG, which is is in my Dropbox folder. Well, JPG is required on Windows.

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dev-sudipto • Edited

Linux mint!
My desktop

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π

Of course you can! I went the extra mile with this one :P

clean

clean

iTerm

iTerm

Hope you like it!

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Raj Amal

Kubuntu 17.10 with KDE Plasma

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Hélio oliveira

Ubuntu Unity + Arc-flatfabulous theme + Paper icons

Ubuntu

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David Muckle • Edited

Any guesses to what the wallpaper on my laptop is? This is my desktop.

Desktop

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Richard Lea

Whose stand? DIO?

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David Muckle

Yep!

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DamirTomic

Jojo - the world?

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Gökhan Kurt

Za warudo!

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Jon Ribeiro • Edited

Manjaro Linux + Gnome @ work

Manjaro

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krisaore

Nice one!
Would you share your wallpaper? :)

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Jon Ribeiro • Edited
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krisaore

Very nice!

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David Schovanec • Edited

Just simple, green to calm, dock and menu bar autohide. I am always surprised why most of you and ppl around me losing workspace in the cost of these.

Schovi's desktop

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Jimmy Bastos

Arch

screenshots

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Sergio Daniel Xalambrí

Super simple, the background can be downloaded from zeit.co/logos.

The apps on the dock are Chrome, Hyper, VSCode, GitHub Desktop, Steam, Postman and Sketch.

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abyss boi • Edited

Sure!Sure!

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Leandro Ramos • Edited

Lubuntu 17.10
Lubuntu

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Markus • Edited

I use an awesome little Mac app called "WallCat" which sets a random desktop every day on any/all of your monitors. Really nice - even tho I hardly get to see it :P

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Laxman

Ubuntu Gnome 17.10 + Adapta GTK theme + Flat remix icon pack + Paper cursors

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Laxman

Ubuntu Gnome 17.10 + Adapta GTK theme + Flat remix icon pack + Paper cursors

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aurel kurtula

I know this is an old thread but I just found my favorite wallpaper

Other than that, the desktop is almost never used. At the moment all my screenshots are auto saved in there (I keep meaning to change location). All the junk (eventually including screenshots) are on the Downloads folder

But, that wallpaper ... I'm so proud to have come across it :)

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Saurabh Sharma • Edited

this thread is old

But still i see comments

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Rajesh Royal • Edited

Here is mine typical windows user 😂 the ugly one
windows desktop dual monitor Rajesh royal screenshot

it's a dual monitor shot

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Dominic Duffin • Edited

This is mine. Just the default wallpaper for now I'm afraid.

Windows 10 desktop screen with default blue wallpaper

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Adrian Muntean

Classic

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ste

A simple and clean desktop.
I don't like having too much stuff on my desktop, it cause me anxiety

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Phani Rithvij

Awesome wallpaper. Share it plz 🥺

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Sam Ferree

spartan xubuntu

xubuntu desktop

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Zeke Hernandez • Edited

I'm late to the party, but I call it clean XP.
cleanXP

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Dwi purnomo • Edited

here is mine

my

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I can't even...