Topic: September 2009 Desktops

[Sapphirus]

I know, I'm 2 days early for September, but this is a jumpstart for desktops of September 2009.
Here's mine-

link to wallpaper

[NUMBERZero]

Your Connections icon is the Wolf's Dragoons symbol .

I have no idea what Desktops of September 2009 is so I'll just post mine anyway!



What I like doing is turning off the icons and stare into it. Pretty cool. It's one of BUBBALOU's artwork pieces. It's just amazing, to say the least.

[Kaizerwolf]

My desktop is pretty awesome for September. I just started using this one. 

[SaladBadger]

Upgraded a bit... Now running XP over Vista. Scene is from Descent II, Quartzon ending. I might re-rip it so that the stars aren't "moving" down

[NUMBERZero]

Man you guys don't have anything on your desktops. Fill 'er up!

I put high priority things in the top right corner. Try finding XL on my desktop. It is purpously put somewhere where it will blend in and I can't notice it.

P.S. I don't play Dofus or Second Life. A couple of my friends installed them to show me what they are like. Dofus definately is not for me. Turn based whatchyamajig RPR wut?

[SaladBadger]

why I don't need desktop icons

Ignore those dual skulls in the first row -- that's something silly from the old days

[-<WillyP>-]

I tend to use the desktop as a work folder... I drag everything off the internet to it then clean it up later.

[Scyphi]

For me, it's not so much the icons, but the sticky notes (the yellow boxes that sit all over my desktop). They're the only thing that's changed with my desktop, anyway, and not all that significantly. 

[D2Disciple]

I really like that XP theme Scyphi (though I've probably already told you that). 

As for mine, the background is a Dreamscene for Vista Ultimate (though it uses a third party tool since there are a just a few Vista standard Dreamscenes), so it moves (and therefore looks really cool).

Come late october though, I should have my copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit shipped to me. Windows 7 FTW! 

[Kaizerwolf]

For Windows 7, you need to get this N64 game desktop. It changes game screenshots every 10 seconds or so.

[TechPro]

A selection of my desktops ... in order to keep this in one post, and to keep it from going clear off the screen, I provided just links.  Enjoy!

XP Desktop on my dual-booting Laptop:  http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/LaptopXP.jpg

Ubuntu Desktop on my dual-booting Laptop:  http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/LaptopUbuntu.jpg

My "test" unit (currently Ubuntu, could be different tomorrow):
http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/TestUnit-Ubuntu.jpg

My LinuxMint 7 build:  http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/LinuxMint7.jpg

Might be using this one soon:  http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/bliss2a.jpg

My work system (Vista = ugh): http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/WorkVistaDescktop.jpg

Did I mention I do some virtual systems at work?  (on that crappy Vista system)
XP VM: http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/XP-VM.jpg
Ubuntu VM: http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/Ubuntu-VM.jpg
Windows 7 VM:  http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/images/Win7-VM.jpg

Oh shoot ... I didn't include the Mac I use at work ...

[Zantor]

Here's mine:

[D2Disciple]

Howdy Zantor! Good to see you dropped by! How'd you find us here?

INSERT: Some great desktops, TechPro. Good to see a fellow Linux Mint 7 user... It's one of the finest Linux distros I've seen (a free operating system that's almost as intuitive as Macintosh and three times as customizable). And that Scrat/Ubuntu wallpaper is classic! So an off-topic question: if you had to choose between Ubuntu "Jaunty" and Linux Mint 7, which would you pick? 

[TechPro]

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Choose between Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" or Linux Mint 7 "Gloria"?  Tough choice actually.  I only just got Linux Mint 7 and have never had the Mint flavor before.  It's actually pretty yummy.  (yes, puns intended)

Over the past several days (over a week?) in my spare time at home I've been installing different flavors and styles of Linux on a low-end "test" system.  I've played around with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, and Mint.  Usually trying both the Gnome and KDE variations of each when available.  I don't recall having heard of Linux Mint until someone mentioned in a thread I was browsing.  Most of the things I require in a Linux box to do at the least ... Mint setup to do easily.  As for Ubuntu, there's no denying the huge communities for the different flavors which means you can usually find good answers easily.  Also, Ubuntu seems to work really well and is very stable for me.  I've had Ubuntu alongside XP on my laptop for quite a while and I can do nearly everything I need except for some Microsoft Office 2007 specific document file types ... and a number of Windows specific games (as if games were important, pffft!) because I haven't played with that area in Linux yet (if I wanna play a game, I just reboot to Windows).   Both Linux styles work well.

Alex, I'll take both OS versions for Free.

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[-<WillyP>-]

Free is good!