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[–] 79 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Doesn't have to be, I know plenty of people who use their desktop as their file system.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I got a jew laptop at work recently and the IT guy asked about Desktop icons. I told him I turn them off. He told me about our CFO who apparently keeps every file in Desktop. I can't imagine.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What's a jew laptop? Does it wear a yarmulka? 😁

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So, you just woke up and chose violence?

    On a Sunday morning?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    he paid for entire screen and he's gonna use entire screen

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Plot twist, its a wallpaper

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I actually made a wallpaper like this by moving icons and screenshotting until the whole screen was filled. Was funny trying to figure out which shortcuts were the real ones. Now I have enough stuff that I don't need to fake it. The trick is to have everything important in the taskbar, the rest is just there to fill space.

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  • I think my mom's desktop has overflown onto this poor fellow's.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He had them all arranged by penis until web dude came along

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  • Every coworker I've ever had

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Um hi.

    This could be a picture of me. It's classic ADHD desktop, with things dragged 'for later'.

    Later isn't today.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    in my case i just have twenty different folders all for files "for later", with a datestamp. oldest is probably around 2021?

    actually twenty is very generous, probably more like a hundred, all across different categories, with different and unique and sometimes duplicated files.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ahh the custom software we used in the warehouse I managed had an upper limit on the number of windows it could spawn.

    I found that, it was faster to keep a window open (as a child of the main process) than close the window which forced an update of the parent process current tab.

    So I'd have an absurd number of open windows for whatever I was doing for the day. It got to the point during CV19 where I'd have too many windows open, eventually opening another window would kill them all and prompt me with a dialogue to send an error report to our BDM (lead programmer too).

    He would daily get hit with multiple crashes from me, mostly just saying 'hello "BDM Name"'.

    I've still got friends working at the same company, I don't believe this has been resolved since.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Basically an iPad

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    1 of the first things i do after installing linux on a laptop is disabling desktop.

    On a tablet, i can understand muscle memory kicking in and launching apps easily but this is incomprehensible.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People actually use their desktops?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Dude is crazy organized. Look at that perfect grid.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There is a guy who needs arrange by penis.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I honestly thought I was the only person who remembered that video existed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    A lot of us remember it. If you are a sysadmin you remember it. I've been a sysadmin for twenty eight years and working for living in IT for thirty five. Sales 'dudes' are the worst. They are just puffed up blowhards with little or no intelligence. the only talent they have is lying to people.

    Case in point from personal experience.

    I put wireless in a Chevy dealership one time as a side job. Every time apple came out with a update for the iphone they(the sales weenies) would complain it was slow. They just couldn't understand that the problem was on apples end. I drew them a diagram one time and they said that it didn't matter they paid me for fast internet. I ended up calling the owner of the dealership and told him I would be out to remove the AP's and refund him. He asked why and I told him about the weekly calls about how it was my fault it wasn't fast enough for them. He told me don't worry about it and he would take care of it. A year or so later one of the AP's 'somehow' defaulted to factory and had to be added back to the controller. When I got there the sales weenies went out of their way to ignore me. It was the AP in the main showroom where the sales offices were. Its no mystery that one of the half wits did a factory reset on it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Gross. My home PCs have just the recycle bin. My work mac nothing (except the brief moment screenshots get put there because before I move them someone at Apple is a monster)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought I looked at some point, but I might be misremembering. I hadn't used a mac in literally 20+ years when I started at this job (and hate using mac, but that's another story), so I might also have missed something obvious. Looking in the settings now, though, nothing comes up for screenshot, screen shot, or screen capture (aside from keyboard shortcut settings).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, my GNOME desktop on Linux is just a picture. Apps, and files are indexed, you hit the "windows" key, commonly accessed apps are on a popup dock, as you start to type you get an immediate list of matches, whether its apps, filenames or file contents.

    Never needed to add shortcuts

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have the same setup on Nobara with kRunner.

    Mac has spotlight and it works pretty well. Windows start menu has similar functionality as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Windows indexing is garbage: if I type the name of an app in the search it can't find stuff that has been installed, and sometimes it likes less keystrokes, as in exc will show excel, exce will remove excel as a choice. And file indexing (even though I have the folders added to search indexing) just doesn't find stuff, its basically a directory crawler. Where on Linux it's instant

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm a computer idiot. I know Lemmy is full of techy people who can explain to me in exhaustive (and exhausting...) detail why Gnome is evil or horrible or designed by morons or whatever. It seems to be the most popular position. But I fucking love it. I use Linux for ideological reasons, and because I'm a computer idiot, and it's safer from viruses, and with an immutable OS I'm less likely to bork my shit. I came from windows, and since the switch around 5 years ago, I've never been happier. It feels clean, and fun, and so easy to use. It's perfect for my touchscreen, when I flip my laptop over and use it as a tablet. It's fantastic for keyboard controls when I don't want to fuck with a mouse. The mouse gestures are amazing when I don't want to fuck with a keyboard. I use Fedora because I love stock* Gnome. Ubuntu was okay, but that basic Gnome experience is just frickin fabulous.

    *Okay, not stock. There's a few extension. But not many!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Gnome gets hate because many Linux users like configurability, and on the user end Gnome is pretty much "here is what you get."

    But on the backend Gnome is configurable (zorin used this to make 4 unique desktop setup preferences)

    But Gnome feels fully cohesive and finished to me. Like an appliance GUI.

    I hate going back to Windows style start menu, it feels so counter productive

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Desktop #15 ... of 52.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey that looks like my desktop! whenever I get a new laptop I put everything in a folder called "old desktop" on my desktop.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Same with how macbooks look because all screenshots are automatically saved to desktop.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Right click→Sort by→Size→Profit

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    At some point you just stop trying

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Try this with Windows 98, it'll be a 15min boot time guaranted

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Did you know that you can have windows not show icons? It's great, since everything wants to default to "desktop"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This ruined my day

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pro tip, if you do this create one single file on your desktop and dump it all in there make a blood pact with Satan The Devil, Ruler of the seven layers of Hell, may his name inspire terror in mortal souls, that you will not use the desktop for Files ever again only Icon's lest you suffer eternal Damnation.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My desktop is my castle!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Eww, windows?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is my desktop. I have ADHD. I also have too many tabs open.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Folders FOLDERS F O L D E R S!!!!!

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