It's that time again! Post your desktop here

[dubeskin]

[billyoc]

1. Pfft...

[dubeskin]

2. What OS is that even?

It looks like an extremely simplified version of Windows 95...which bring back terrible memories...

[billyskank]

3. It's Linux, but I can't identify the window manager being used.

The only resemblances to Windows 95 are superficial. ;)

[dubeskin]

5. Ahh, so we have someone unwilling to aid the large corporations?

Why not join the party and align with some faceless business which manufactures superior products?

In all seriousness though, why not upgrade to one of the more advanced Linux OSs?

[billyoc]

7. More advanced, eh? There is nothing more advanced than building Linux From Scratch.

As it turns out, I wrote the book. ;)

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/credits.html

[billyskank]

9. You did? That's awesome! I tried LFS myself once, thoroughly enjoyed it.

I wasn't prepared at the outset for quite how long it would take, but I learned a lot, and your book made it a very smooth process. I loved it.

:toast:

[billyoc]

14. Yeah, we started out just to write a learning tool.

after a while we realized, hey, this works pretty good!

[billyskank]

16. It *does* work pretty good.

Hell, it worked better for me than Gentoo, which I have never successfully installed. ;)

[billyoc]

17. Oh, yeah, there's even a live CD you can run LFS from , don't even have to install it.

[billyskank]

19. That's what I used to build my system from.

It was very handy.

[billyoc]

4. WHHHAAAATTTT!!!!

:rofl:

http://www.icewm.org/

[Chicken Girl]

35. you're hardcore

hee hee!

[hobbit709]

6. Today

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Mine

[dubeskin]

15. SO MANY GAMES!!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. I have no life.

[Shiver]

23. Cake Mania is fun as hell though

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Love it! Although I am stuck on Cake Mania 3...and then it gets

freaking annoying.

[Shiver]

25. And, of course, Diner Dash

And all of its sequels. Absolutely hated Carrie the Caregiver, though...

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Cooking Dash (with flo) just came.

I never finished Carrie because it was boring. I love first class flurry.

[Shiver]

29. Never played First Class Flurry

Nor have I heard of it, actually.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Well...now you can say you have.

[nadine_mn]

71. You time-managment game junkie

Have you played Sally's Spa? lol see I hide all my games

[ScreamingMeemie]

79. I LOVE Sally's Spa.

I shouldn't use the shortcut option should I?

I was just talking with a friend and we were thinking they need a clinic for us addicts. :)

[Shiver]

10. Uh...how do you take a picture of your desktop?

:shrug:

[billyskank]

11. With a *special* camera.

;)

[Shiver]

12. Cute

Really, though. How?

[billyskank]

13. Should be a simple matter of pressing 'Print Screen'

The button on your keyboard up top next to scroll lock. Then open MS Paint and press Ctrl-V. Hey presto.

[Shiver]

18. Hey, I figured out how to do it!

[billyskank]

20. And there was me telling you to use MS Paint.

:blush:

[Shiver]

22. Yeah...

I didn't want to say anything about that. :P

[dubeskin]

26. Be proud to use that Mac!

[Shiver]

27. Fuck yeah!

Elitist Mac bastard for life! Although I might not have my old iBook for much longer...

[Chovexani]

49. Someone else with an X-Men background, lol

Bravo. :D

[Forkboy]

31. Yours is prettier and more relaxing.

But not as cool. :P

[dubeskin]

32. Hey, hey! Is that downloaded music I see?

:spank:

SOMEONE'S going to be seeing the FBI soon...

But na, mine's still better.

[Forkboy]

33. It might be.

:rofl:

[City of Mills]

48. Damn I want Wargasm!

I haven't heard Why Play Around? since my tape melted... good memories... at least I got a couple of tunes from their MySpace page...

[Forkboy]

54. Some pics from their 20th anniversary show last month.

(I didn't take these, but I'm in a couple of them, as is my friend who lives downstairs, and another friend filming in the background)















Why Play Around is a friggin classic, and they ripped through it live. Bob Mayo was joking how cool it was to see people singing along who had barely been born when it came out.

[City of Mills]

58. Thanks for the pics!!

That had to be an awesome show...Wargasm was required listening for any Boston area headbanger, thanks for the memory jog. :toast:

[Chicken Girl]

34. Bien sur!

[dubeskin]

36. I like that background

It's really fun

[mwooldri]

37. I'm at work. No point. Plain blue background with basic XP buttons.

A couple of icons but that's about it.

Mark.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

38. My photo of a local 35 foot tall stainless steel statue of the Virgin Mary

:toast:

[dubeskin]

41. I more like the way you have your icons arranged

I've always preferred a more "organized" arrangement over the common default lists of icons.

Nice!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

47. Thanks!

Makes it easier to come up with a nice wallpaper. I've also tried it vertically with the icons on the left and right but prefer this way.

:toast:

[erinlough]

39. Here's Mine!

[dubeskin]

42. Very basic!

Are you planning on making an Obama-latern for Halloween to scare away the Fundamentalists and bigots?

[erinlough]

55. Those are my scary pumpkins, I thought they would be enough!

[WallStreetNobody]

40. I keep mine simple and clean - unlike my real desk

[dubeskin]

44. Naughty, naughty...

Vuze? Looks like we have several "file-sharers" here on DU!

[City of Mills]

43. It's a picture I took today...

[dubeskin]

Very nice! Where is that?

Other than beside the river :p

[City of Mills]

46. Somewhere between

Lowell, Dracut and Tyngsboro Massachusetts :)

[Solon]

45. Which one? I have several...

Mystery Desktop 1:



This one should be more obvious:



And so should this one:



Granted, none of these are CURRENT desktops, but the OSes used are "current" in a sense that I still use them. I'm just too lazy to post a current pic! Oh, and yes I do have XP, but only for games.

[Chovexani]

50. Mine should shock no one here

Yes, that is a cheesecake piece of fanart I downloaded spoofing the Charlie's Angels movie poster, with Logan, Cyclops, and Gambit (from left to right). Yes, I am a pervy fangirl.

(Yes, I am still running Tiger. :P)

[dubeskin]

56. No, but the amount of icons on your dock DOES astound me!

[Chovexani]

61. I'm a dockaholic

:D It's seriously my favorite thing about OSX. Even when I still had my old iMac running OS9, I had a ghetto Dock extension I used.

[Inchworm]

51. hmm, a little cluttered it seems

and old :D

:hi:

[Chovexani]

52. lol, you gotta do some cleaning

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

53. I have this picture on mine:

[dubeskin]

57. That is a great picture!

[pokerfan]

59. 'k

[dubeskin]

60. Are you serious?

C'mon! Let's see some personality!

[pokerfan]

66. I'm super serial

As you can see, I prefer a clean desktop. I usually only see it at startup and shutdown anyway. I launch programs from the start menu using the windows key and I use alt-tab to switch between them.

I prefer my files properly tucked into appropriate directories rather than scattered about the desktop. To manage them, I use this:

[Forkboy]

63. Ah, a minimalist.

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

68. Not really

It's just that if I choose a picture for the desktop, all the other pictures get jealous. :)

[Lucian]

62. Where'd you get that background?

I love it!

Here's my desktop:

[dubeskin]

65. Ooh, very nice. Here it is

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1253/silence.html

They have some really nice wallpapers on this site. I quite like them.

[Lucian]

69. Thank you very much!

:)

[SacredCow]

64. Mine....

[dubeskin]

67. That's cool. A memorial of some kind?

[nickgutierrez]

70. Here's mine:

I think it might be desktop cleanup time, soon.

[ghostsofgiants]

72. I'm still reppin' the Brian O'Blivion...

I need a new desktop.

[Angleae]

73. I'd post it, but it probably violates DU's TOS

Something about naked boobies.

[dubeskin]

74. Very nice!

I assume that it's your PERSONAL computer, and not work? Unless of course, you have the job that every male desires...

[Lavender Brown]

75. Mine

[DarkTirade]

76. I would... but I just reinstalled Windows

and never got around to putting a new background up. :P

[leeroysphitz]

77. Everybody's Desktops look great. Shows a lot of creativity.

I bet if they had a similar thread over at Free Republic it would be nothing but over sized pixelated pictures of Sarah Palin shooting an m-16. LOL.

Here is mine.

[Angel]

78. Mine