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Offline Zantor

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2009, 02:21:08 PM »
Haha D2Junkie, I was referred here by our good colleague TechPro.

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2009, 12:57:46 AM »
D2Junkie had a nice post here on the Linux subject ... and since this is a thread about Desktop backgrounds (and not Linux) ... I split the thread and moved the Linux conversation over to Technical.

Right Here:  http://www.planetdescent.net/index.php?topic=145.0

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2009, 07:42:42 PM »
Here's the one from my brand-spanking-new install of Ubuntu: Jaunty Jackalope. I like keeping things simple, yet unique.  ;)

I, for one, hope this is much, much more than a reconnaissance mission.

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2009, 08:00:28 PM »
It's a lot better than the industrial orange colors they give you by default

And just for kicks here's my ubuntu virtual machine's desktop:


It's still using 8.04. For the very little I use this VM it's not worth going through the download and update process
« Last Edit: September 12, 2009, 04:15:59 PM by InsanityBringer »

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2009, 09:08:05 PM »
Lol. I downloaded a green GNOME theme and a cool wallpaper to get rid of the ugly diarrhea brown color of the normal theme.  ;D
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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2009, 04:15:30 PM »
It's a lot better than the default industrial orange colors they give you by default


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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2009, 05:09:52 PM »
I just tried out Puppy Linux (super small OS, loads entirely into a 64mb RAMDISK, super fast (because it's loaded into RAM).  Pretty cool.  I talk a bit more about it in Technical...

Anyway ... here's a screenshot.
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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2009, 07:55:33 PM »
Ah yes, Puppy. Its size is one its main selling points. My brother has taken a liking to it, mostly because of its small size and its versatility for graphic design. He had more of a liking to GrafPup, but it's not supported, and the CD images available for download are corrupt.

I still haven't changed my wallpaper. It may be the wallpaper I've had up longest this year since my reformat after trying Windows 7.

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2009, 07:02:55 AM »
Im having way too much fun BumpMapping.  :P
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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2009, 03:43:52 PM »
Here's a screenie from my Pentium 4 Desktop. Had Fedora KDE, but I ran into just a couple of usability issues that made it not worth my time, so I moved to CrunchBang. I'm using roughly 150MB of RAM out of 3GB to power an OS that looks rather spiffy - how cool is that?  ;)

« Last Edit: September 18, 2009, 05:42:22 AM by D2Junkie »
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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2009, 07:52:09 PM »
See, that's what a clean Desktop should look like.

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #26 on: September 18, 2009, 06:05:23 AM »
Seems....empty.  :-\
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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #27 on: September 18, 2009, 06:34:47 AM »
I'm with TechPro.  Clean/uncluttered desktops are best.  :)

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Re: September 2009 Desktops
« Reply #28 on: September 18, 2009, 07:19:22 AM »
I view a desktop as just that: a desktop. If you put junk all over your desktop, there's no room for work. In Windows, I hate having to click "view desktop" everytime I want to open something else. In Crunchbang, it's actually impossible to put icons on the desktop, since everything is instantly available at a simple right-click menu on the desktop. That's how much I disdain clutter.  ;D

INSERT: Here's another from my laptop.   ::)
« Last Edit: September 18, 2009, 08:59:20 AM by D2Junkie »
I, for one, hope this is much, much more than a reconnaissance mission.

 

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