Post a picture of your desktop!

[Joom]

I am following that "Swap should be the 1.5x or 2x the amount of RAM that you have". As you can probably guess, my laptop has only 4GB of RAM.

I don't even use SWAP now because it seems really unnecessary what with today's kernels, but meh.

 

[matpower]

I don't even use SWAP now because it seems really unnecessary what with today's kernels, but meh.

I agree, I think I only have hit it once with Chrome and tons of tabs, but I am going to cut the load a bit anyway(CPU is basically netbook tier), I guess I'll just copy the default values that I'm using in this install.

 

[Tzuba]

Ignore the text message. I just don't feel like cropping it lol.

 

[Piluvr]

Installed cinnamon onto ubuntu again. Here you go!

 

[Purple_Heart]

thats mine

 

[Joom]

Ignore the text message. I just don't feel like cropping it lol.

Mind sharing your wallpaper?

 

[Tzuba]

Mind sharing your wallpaper?

Sure thing!

 

[Joom]

Thanks for the wallpaper. Also, not to be offensive, but why does nobody here seem to really delve much into customization? I mean, custom Windows styles, Rainmeter, Rocketdock, and a myriad of other things exist for a reason. And for you Linux users; shame on you. I used to think /r/unixporn was bad.

This is my Windows machine:

Explore deviantArt and other mediums of customization. It honestly seems like a waste of time to just screenshot the default style and icons scattered everywhere. I guess I have no place to be saying this, but c'mon. We're a community of video game hackers. Customization and tinkering is our forte.

 

[VinsCool]

Gave my thinkpad a second life!

 

[BORTZ]

@VinsCool FF9 eh?

 

[VinsCool]

@VinsCool FF9 eh?

I really love FF9!

Freya

 

[Joom]

I really love FF9!

Freya

It's my most favorite installment of Final Fantasy. Right next to 10. Go ahead and bash me, VII fanboys.

 

[VinsCool]

It's my most favorite installment of Final Fantasy. Right next to 10. Go ahead and bash me, VII fanboys.

I'm a VI fan, so I'm not gonna bash

 

[blindseer]

Been Playing Chrono Trigger DS so I figured a ct wallpaper

 

[ihaveahax]

Thanks for the wallpaper. Also, not to be offensive, but why does nobody here seem to really delve much into customization? I mean, custom Windows styles, Rainmeter, Rocketdock, and a myriad of other things exist for a reason. And for you Linux users; shame on you. I used to think /r/unixporn was bad.

This is my Windows machine:
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Explore deviantArt and other mediums of customization. It honestly seems like a waste of time to just screenshot the default style and icons scattered everywhere. I guess I have no place to be saying this, but c'mon. We're a community of video game hackers. Customization and tinkering is our forte.

everyone has different interests in customization. I might be the odd one here, but one of the reasons I like OS X for daily use is because of how un-customizable it is compared to Windows/Linux. I don't really want to focus much on making my desktop fancy and whatnot, I just want it to be done for me basically so I can work on other things. but that's just me (yes I'm aware I can use hacks and stuff to customize OS X further)

hell, when I installed Windows 8.1 a while back (before 10 was a thing), I didn't switch the default background for a good while. I still haven't for my VM >,>

also, to stay relevant:

Spoiler

 

[Tzuba]

Thanks for the wallpaper. Also, not to be offensive, but why does nobody here seem to really delve much into customization? I mean, custom Windows styles, Rainmeter, Rocketdock, and a myriad of other things exist for a reason. And for you Linux users; shame on you. I used to think /r/unixporn was bad.

This is my Windows machine:

Explore deviantArt and other mediums of customization. It honestly seems like a waste of time to just screenshot the default style and icons scattered everywhere. I guess I have no place to be saying this, but c'mon. We're a community of video game hackers. Customization and tinkering is our forte.

I used to but since I upgraded to Windows 10 a year back, I just haven't bothered.

 

[Joom]

everyone has different interests in customization. I might be the odd one here, but one of the reasons I like OS X for daily use is because of how un-customizable it is compared to Windows/Linux. I don't really want to focus much on making my desktop fancy and whatnot, I just want it to be done for me basically so I can work on other things. but that's just me (yes I'm aware I can use hacks and stuff to customize OS X further)

hell, when I installed Windows 8.1 a while back (before 10 was a thing), I didn't switch the default background for a good while. I still haven't for my VM >,>

also, to stay relevant:

Spoiler

But OS X is easily customizable. You've seen my previous screenshots. It doesn't even require heavy system modification like Windows does. However, I will agree that El Capitan has made it harder to customize, though I blame the developers of Flavours, because this exists. The developers want to argue that the rootless system introduced in El Capitan has killed theming, but this is bullshit. Go to dA, and there are custom themes. I'm using the Unity 2016 theme currently. Coupled with cDock and LiteIcon, OS X is very customizable.

 

[ihaveahax]

But OS X is easily customizable. You've seen my previous screenshots. It doesn't even require heavy system modification like Windows does. However, I will agree that El Capitan has made it harder to customize, though I blame the developers of Flavours, because this exists. The developers want to argue that the rootless system introduced in El Capitan has killed theming, but this is bullshit. Go to dA, and there are custom themes. I'm using the Unity 2016 theme currently. Coupled with cDock and LiteIcon, OS X is very customizable.

fair enough, though I mostly still stick to defaults because they just work and I usually just want to get on with working (or not working). I usually just change the background and that's it.

on Linux, I do like the look of the "Numix" icons and theme (https://github.com/numixproject ?), and I use Start8 on W8.1 because the W7 start menu is just so much faster than the "start screen" (and the W10 start menu too). I don't usually go further than that. but maybe I'll play with more "advanced"(I guess I can call it) customization on another computer soon out of curiosity.

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

Thanks for the wallpaper. Also, not to be offensive, but why does nobody here seem to really delve much into customization? I mean, custom Windows styles, Rainmeter, Rocketdock, and a myriad of other things exist for a reason. And for you Linux users; shame on you. I used to think /r/unixporn was bad.

This is my Windows machine: <cut for space>

Explore deviantArt and other mediums of customization. It honestly seems like a waste of time to just screenshot the default style and icons scattered everywhere. I guess I have no place to be saying this, but c'mon. We're a community of video game hackers. Customization and tinkering is our forte.

5-7 years ago, I'd spend entire weekends trawling for the kind of custom Windows themes that nearly brick your system just trying to install them, customizing Rainmeter configs, collecting wallpapers, tweaking conky scripts, trying to make GNOME Shell feel like it wasn't a thrown-together pile of shit, etc. These days I just don't have the time or energy to fix every little thing that I break trying to make my desktop more stylish - most of the time I'll have a web browser or game maximized, or a browser side-by-side with a text editor and a terminal covering both of them; anything beyond the basics seems like a waste. The most real customization in either conky script here is adding a pianobar tab that hides itself if pianobar's not running, although fixing the Tonight indicator on the weather script would probably only take a couple minutes.

The wallpaper's a throwback to the days when I did spend hours tweaking and adjusting every little thing, though. Not sure how long it'll stay for. Also not going to bother turning on my desktop to show off my Rainmeter skins, but I don't think I've actually changed much since the last time I posted it.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Gave my thinkpad a second life!

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Now THAT'S a blast from the past! Wasn't that your avatar back before the whole toon link thing happened??