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rattle
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Post by rattle »

You suck at censoring.
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Machiosabre
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Post by Machiosabre »

rattle wrote:You suck at censoring.
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FLOZi
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Post by FLOZi »

Censorship of the human body is ridiculous
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Argh
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Post by Argh »

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My desktop is messy and boring. I have about 100-200 icons on a plain black surface (goes up and down constantly, like a digital tide), with a lonely taskbar at the bottom of my 1600 / 1200 flatpanel. I hate wasting time navigating, I hate wasting CPU on drawing stuff I'm only going to ooh and ahh at once, and I'm mouse-oriented, so I just put it all where I need it.

I've tried pretty backgrounds, and they just get in the way- if you're going to do that, why not just not have any icons at all? That seems completely pointless to me, since zipping around my desktop is a lot faster than navigating a menu or remembering which recursive directory I put everything in...

I'm just weird like that, I guess. It's the same reasoning behind why I generally refuse to use "chat" programs- in the time it takes to "chat" about something, I could have 4 much-more-useful phone conversations, or write one really nice, formal email, or one-and-a-half decent Forum entries (er, "walls of text", for you non-readers). It annoys me to no end that people intentionally waste their time like that, and worse yet, want me to join them. Next, they'll be asking me to "text" with teeny buttons on my cell phone, which is even more retarded ;)
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Post by Masure »

Argh wrote:Image

My desktop is messy and boring. I have about 100-200 icons on a plain black surface (goes up and down constantly, like a digital tide), with a lonely taskbar at the bottom of my 1600 / 1200 flatpanel. I hate wasting time navigating, I hate wasting CPU on drawing stuff I'm only going to ooh and ahh at once, and I'm mouse-oriented, so I just put it all where I need it.

I've tried pretty backgrounds, and they just get in the way- if you're going to do that, why not just not have any icons at all? That seems completely pointless to me, since zipping around my desktop is a lot faster than navigating a menu or remembering which recursive directory I put everything in...

I'm just weird like that, I guess. It's the same reasoning behind why I generally refuse to use "chat" programs- in the time it takes to "chat" about something, I could have 4 much-more-useful phone conversations, or write one really nice, formal email, or one-and-a-half decent Forum entries (er, "walls of text", for you non-readers). It annoys me to no end that people intentionally waste their time like that, and worse yet, want me to join them. Next, they'll be asking me to "text" with teeny buttons on my cell phone, which is even more retarded ;)
I (and Satirik I guess) like your desktop philosophy :)
Tobi
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Post by Tobi »

Looks like mine too except the background is the default windows blue here because I cba to change it and there are a bit less icons on it (mostly since I put downloads in a separate folder, they used to be on the desktop too :-))
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AF
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Post by AF »

Vistas searchbox is a godsend
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smoth
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Post by smoth »

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Zpock
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Post by Zpock »

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I used to have my icons in a different order but some dude that's bewildered about my desktop thought it would be funny to put them all in a folder so messed up the (more or less chronological) "order" they were in. Since I filled up I just delete 2-3 icons I think look unimportant to put more.
Auswaschbar
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Post by Auswaschbar »

:shock: What the hell?
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I have a total count of 0 desktop icons (since I don't see my desktop anyway)
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AF
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Post by AF »

Covering your desktop in icons makes your computer a heck of a lot slower.

Auswaschbar, have you been reading CodingHorrors?

Here's my laptop desktop:

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cong06
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Post by cong06 »

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My desktop.
I like icons...but I'm also can't stand to have them all over the place.

Especially relics of old downloads...
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

Oh my...

Those are WAY too many icons.
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Post by Maelstrom »

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Love this cat 8)
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Comp1337
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Post by Comp1337 »

Nice wallpaper AF
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Pressure Line
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Post by Pressure Line »

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*edit*lol broke the forum
Last edited by Pressure Line on 13 Nov 2007, 09:33, edited 2 times in total.
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Comp1337
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Post by Comp1337 »

FULL RESOLUTION DO NOT WANT
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Crappage
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Post by Crappage »

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*yawn* I have more stuff than that, just don't wanna clutter my desktop with 'em...
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Quanto042
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Post by Quanto042 »

yays, another "post ur desktops!" thread!

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AF
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Post by AF »

ooo where can I get that background quanto? Is it part of a set/collection?
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