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easter bunny
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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 04:42 Edited at: 28th Mar 2013 06:37
I know a similar thread has been posted before (background picture), but I thought it would be cool to get a screenshot of your desktop (icons).
Feel free to blur/pixelate any confidential icons.


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Venge
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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 04:59 Edited at: 26th Mar 2013 05:00
Scaled to 70% to fit on the page.

Adorableness is just a minimize away

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 12:19
^I just finished watching that movie again. They do such a good job of emotionally attaching you the dragon.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 13:19
That's a lotta pron on your desktop!

Also, there is similar thread

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 14:05 Edited at: 26th Mar 2013 14:08
There should be a no cleaning rule, i certainly haven't cleaned mine, nor blurred anything, see what dirt you can uncover on me


I can count to banana...

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 14:07
A crime! You do not have a shortcut to MineCraft on your desktop!!

Also, wth is "Foobar2000"?

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 14:09
Quote: "Also, wth is "Foobar2000"?"

It's an excellent (though not very pretty) music player.

I'll post mine later.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 19:04 Edited at: 26th Mar 2013 19:05
My desktop... I use linux 95% of the time now anyways. (scaled too)

Actually quite clean compared to most.



Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
Warning! May contain Nuts!

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 19:07
Obviously you GIMP'd your desktop clean, the evidence is right there.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 19:37
Yeah, the Fn + PrtSc buttons don't seem to work for me...

Mental arithmetic? Me? (That's for computers) I can't subtract a fart from a plate of beans!
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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 20:08 Edited at: 26th Mar 2013 20:09
Here's how it looks now. Got that sweet background from Reddit.



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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 23:21
Mac attack!

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 07:07
Quote: "There should be a no cleaning rule, i certainly haven't cleaned mine, nor blurred anything, see what dirt you can uncover on me"


I use stardock fences, so my desktop is normally hidden.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 13:31 Edited at: 27th Mar 2013 13:40
Let's rename this thread to "post your censored or hidden desktop", so it will be like a post a wallpaper with start button.

up:

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 13:42


I accidentally the task bar.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 13:45 Edited at: 27th Mar 2013 13:45
Here is my unhidden uncensored desktop:



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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 13:54 Edited at: 27th Mar 2013 13:54
Here's my work desktop:



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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 13:57
You accidentally file

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 14:11
Am I the only one



who likes a clean desktop?

In all seriousness, I have icons on the desktop hidden, and most frequently used programs on the taskbar.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 14:24
That's just not convenient. You need to press/click more keys just for lulz.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 16:02 Edited at: 27th Mar 2013 16:02
Here's my desktop with my girlfriend as the wallpaper. Yah I know, real original!




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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 21:08
Quote: "Yah I know, real original!"


Erm, for TGC users, probably...I mean, how many of us here actually have girlfriends?

Well, I like to keep my icons relatively tidy, so I tend to group them on my Start Screen. You saw my desktop last time, so I guess a start screen will suffice this time, as I'm a Windows 8 loser.




I've not go all my programs loaded since getting my new PC, so who knows? Once I gradually add more of my stuff it'll become more cluttered.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2013 21:24
I think i might be the messiest person here...


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easter bunny
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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 00:58 Edited at: 28th Mar 2013 01:06
Quote: "Erm, for TGC users, probably...I mean, how many of us here actually have girlfriends?"

I don't
Quote: "Well, I like to keep my icons relatively tidy, so I tend to group them on my Start Screen. You saw my desktop last time, so I guess a start screen will suffice this time, as I'm a Windows 8 loser."

I'm on windows 8, here's my start screen:


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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 01:00
@Jeku - You could use three more girlfriends to fill up those sidebars.


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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 05:32
Quote: "I'm a Windows 8 loser."


I am too! I just refuse to have anything to do with the Windows 8 home screen. As soon as I boot up I hit the Windows key to get to the original desktop. Phew!

Quote: "@Jeku - You could use three more girlfriends to fill up those sidebars."


Hmm, can't say I disagree


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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 23:13 Edited at: 28th Mar 2013 23:13
Here's mine, always fun Had to re-size it considerably, blah.



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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 23:22
How did you get 2 diffirent backgrounds on the screens
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Posted: 28th Mar 2013 23:22 Edited at: 28th Mar 2013 23:23
Here's my Desktop. Using W8 on a netbook, so everything's set out to run lean and lightweight for understandable reasons.

Not using my Start Screen due to MS shafting netbook users with their lower resolution banning system:


Halo Reach desktop theme. Don't blame me, it's probably the best put-together one I could find. :3

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 16:12 Edited at: 1st Apr 2013 17:49
Won't let me show mine so I attached it..



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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 16:15
@L3mmy
Max8 -> 2013
Good old times?

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 16:17
I barely use max Sketchup man..But also i'm used to it how it is and all my plugins are setup as I want them so will leave it as it is.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2013 17:29
When you've posted and attached the image, Middle-click on View on your new post. Then, copy the address that will appear in the window that opens with the picture you've attached.

Post this with [*img] tags without the *s, and you can embed it in your post!

Only TGC members can see it, too!
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I used the image tags but hosted the picture on my site...works with the apollo link though :/



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Quote: "How did you get 2 diffirent backgrounds on the screens"

Dual monitors. Two 22" running at 1920x1080. When I screenshot by desktop it picks up both since you can seamlessly move between both screens.

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Oh, I meant to ask how you got the 2 diffirent wallpapers on the 2 screens
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Quote: "Dual monitors. Two 22" running at 1920x1080. When I screenshot by desktop it picks up both since you can seamlessly move between both screens."


Windows wont allow you to have 2 different background though, that's what hes asking i think, i used "Ultramon" for it until the trial ran out...


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Back when I had a two-monitor setup, I just copy-pasted the two backgrounds I wanted into one double-wide image and it showed up the way his did.
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If you put both the wallpapers into one image the exact resolution of both your monitors, and set it to Tile, it will work.
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Windows 8 allows for different wallpapers.


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Finally had enough of Windows this morning (receiving countless vague error messages, of which could be caused by a million-and-one things) and managed to switch my last PC to *nix. Crunchbang 11 + Liquorix kernel 3.8 with a nice gritty shot of Holy F*** on the desktop

Native Linux Steam is working brilliantly alongside wine Steam (for Windows titles). I'm currently in the process of getting all my games loaded on again - most of the ones I play on regularly are all there though (Quake, TF2, SC2, Minecraft, Guild Wars and Cod4).

All in all - pretty chuffed with the transition!

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Oh sorry lol. Ya, I combined the images in PsP to get the effect and set it to tile. In windows * you can set each one a different image, but I've yet to make the transition.

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if you have an nvidia card, the nvidia control panel has desktop settings to allow different wallpapers on different monitors. i've been doing this since win xp

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2013 08:29 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2013 08:30
Here's mine:



Not terribly exciting. Desktop icons bug me (unless they are disk drives, then I like to know when they need to be ejected). Keeping it clean also makes it easier to use it as a sort of scratchpad, if I'm exporting files to a particular format for upload or to import into another app.

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Nice, how's [Mountain] Lion working for you? I think I'll be sticking with Snow Leopard, I haven't seen anything much that's worth the upgrade.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2013 19:02 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2013 19:08
Why not have a healthy Mac debate?

I personally really enjoy using them:
-Older Mac (PowerPC-era, early Intels) hardware is well built, beautifully designed (Sir Ive) and reliable (LC PowerMacs and iMac aside). My PowerBook G4 was built in 2005, has been dropped on a hard floor, and still functions perfectly - not a single hardware failure.

-Professional software selection - most design software will run on OSX (Adobe CS, Unity, Max, Pro Tools etc.). I do find the electronics area to be lacking a little (I'm sure you would too, Comet), though the story is the same with Linux and it's nothing a little bit of Windows VM magic can't fix.

-Stable Unix-based architecture. When I ran Windows I never found it buggy per se, though I've always been quite worried about application crashes (arguably the developer's fault). I've found the Mach kernel to be pretty solid and good at recovering from problems. The FreeBSD userland is very nice too (nothing much to say in the GNU vs BSD userland debate) and means that apart from the tried and tested Unix architecture, most Linux software is available thanks to MacPorts and Homebrew.

-Driver support has been painless with every device I've used being usable straight out of the box (audio interfaces etc.). Windows has made many improvements, but I feel that the more complex hardware still being plug-and-play in OSX is a winner.

-The user interface is, in my eyes, the benchmark that I judge all others by. It's space-saving, logical, and overall very enjoyable to use.

-Insane exclusive software lineup - Final Cut, Logic, Aperture etc.


A few things I don't like:
-Trying to push stupid, expensive, proprietary standards.

-Dumbing down of OSX for iOS generation.

-Price premium for the newer, less reliable units.

-Worrisome security update frequency for Java etc.

-Native gaming experience

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OBese87 is da man! (cos he made me hungry)

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I can take that hunger away if you like...



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