Also I'm down to play any of the games I have shown here like Diablo, Diablo II, Ragnarok Online, NWN etc.
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just kidding; i would never stoop so low as to use windows
Hey it's my CIA handler!
we have determined you to be threat level orange this week
With the introduction of Gnome Shell in 2011, the Gnome developers decided desktop icons were tacky and got rid of them. There are some extensions to bring them back, but the Gnome developers are just and righteous in their arbitrary design tyranny.
The dictatorship of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) has given us the most beautiful desktop environment but also the most controversial.
that wallpaper is lovely
Can you tell that I am extremely annoying about recommending people Disco Elysium?
lol nice
Awful lot of Windows in this thread. Let me contribute. Yes, there are no icons because I didn't bother configuring it to display those, and I think it looks prettier that way.
history nerd shit
For the history nerds, I couldn't verify the picture with 100% certainty, but I'm pretty sure it's a picture from the control room in the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in history (source 1, source 2).
It's possible that it's another power plant with a similar control panel. I'm not sure who the scientist are. Some sources I saw mention Igor Kurchatov as one of the scientists, but there's a whole myth about him never shaving his beard (which neither scientist pictured have) that I didn't bother to verify. Besides being in this project, Kurchatov helped build the first Soviet atomic bomb, and has a whole array of things named after him, notably the Kurchatov Institute.
In 1957 he received the Lenin Prize and four times the Stalin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR (1942, 1949, 1951, 1954). He was the hero of socialist work three times (1949, 1951, 1954).
I'm also on linux but use sway and haven't configured anything to take a screenshot yet lol
The desktop of my main ThinkPad. The wifi information is redacted.
Arch Linux w/ sway, swaybg, and waybar. Gruvbox lagtrain as background, with a gruvbox theme applied to everything.
shrunk it a bit since 4k
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CW: MacOS 
I prefer to just toggle into launchpad or use the taskbar usually since I've organized it well enough 
don't visit my desktop often since I usually fullscreen my browser/code editor
so like, you just live like that then?
Hey I'm proud of my tasteful horny Keith Parkinson art
oh, that's fine, i've watched an international student stream his anime titty background to tenured faculty while pulling up slides for science research before. my linux having ass is just more shocked at the usage of a desktop with shortcuts on it. just feels too cluttered for me now.
I'm just old and used to shortcuts on windows lol
same lol altho i gotta say the top bar is wild to me
well, what i really want to be using is a keyboard tiling wm like xmonad or qtile, but for reasons X doesn't support my specific graphics card, and it also doesn't play nice with any wayland WM based off of wlroots, so for my two monitor setup, my favorite option is KDE wayland.
which is to say, i like having a top bar like xmobar that is more like a thinner strip of system info and workspaces a la macos default, but given that i can't have it, i've still elected to shove my windows bar to the top
Debian on gnome. no cleaning as requested
Blurred out private notes (mostly just appointments, todo lists, doctor names/numbers, etc.)
2 years and 50+ different distributions have culminated in a Bazzite Ublue install that I am neither over excited nor overly annoyed about. I will never go back to GNOME though.
I like a tidy desktop.
Yeah, I live like that. I never just leave it sitting with a bare desktop so I never change my background image these days.
Cool
you have made me want to change my backgrounds that I never look at, tyvm
Arch Linux w/ GNOME 45
I switch my desktop wallpaper every couple of months/weeks.
I catalogue what shows I watch and what games I play etc.
Nobara OS. Already clean 
The taskbar is usually hidden too so it's literally just an animated wallpaper
Is this a desktop?
I'll allow it
Nice try FBI
Windows
Discord in application form
Not today, Langley
Redacted all the information that could be used to harm me on this website.
balls
Nobara 39 with KDE Plasma :)
I have a ton of wallpapers rotating every 2 hours, so I'll chain comment with a few more screenshots, because I absolutely love some of the wallpapers I have and I want you comrades to see. I only took screenshots of drawn wallpapers, but I do have some nice brutalist ones and a lot of space and Arcane ones too.
The game icon is so that Mrs. ButtBidet can find her game without messing around with Steam and Linux.
You have good taste in games and I'm boring lol
I have an image viewer open, a .pdf viewer open, a desktop wiki open, and chat program while streaming music
Thanks, pretty mountains
Pool of Radiance
Eye of the Beholder
Damn, those are some old ass games.
I have a rotating batch of desktop. I also like haven't added any desktop shortcuts in years. Also did hide my real name that appears on some apps.
Paradox gamer 
I am also unfortunately cripplingly addicted to Paradox games 
What's your favorite nation to play in EU4?
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
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