every forum’s gotta have one of these topics, right? share your computer’s desktop and mobile device’s home screen here! it’s always fun seeing how other people uniquely customize their devices.
i’ll start! here’s my macbook’s desktop. i’ve never liked desktop icons personally, so i’ve always kept them turned off. my wallpaper is one that i’ve created myself - you can find it (and other stuff i’ve made) at my art gallery.
my computer desktop is literally such a mess im afraid people will yell at me for it XD but heres my phone bg! heres the actual image if u wanna look at it proper, its my own art of an OC of mine
Since about 2016 I’ve often stuck to solid color wallpapers, although I’ve made exceptions before for some periods of time. Currently I use a gray background for both my MacBook Air and my Huion tablet because it’s a mid-level amount of brightness with minimal hue, which helps me focus on the apps that I’m using as well as for any art related stuff.
For sanity’s sake I like keeping my desktop minimal, so I limit myself to using only 1-3 icons on the desktop.
My wallpaper is an original piece I’ve made of one of my mascots. They’re the little green guy in my animated button. Used firealpaca for the sketch, and inkscape for the final version. Now that I’m talking about this piece it makes me think: “Dang I need to make something like this again.”
Nothing spectacular for my desktop. I change the wallpaper every now and then, but rarely actually look at it. I used to spend a lot of time customizing the GUI, but now it’s just bog-standard KDE.
Just the middle monitor with my custom new tab page and an empty terminal, though there’s 1 more monitor on either side which looks more or less identical besides using different patterns for the wallpaper.
I’m currently obsessed with Metalocalypse so forgive the Valentines setup with art that very much ships middle-aged metalheads, but uh. My desktop, as well as my phone lockscreen and background.
The bottom panel is set to auto hide. KDE can look like a lot of different things when you toy around with it a bit. I think KDE is a great Desktop Environment in a default configuration but I’ve always loved that you can make it look like Gnome, Windows, Mac OS, or something different all together.
My phone homescreen is pretty boring as I barely interact with my phone. So I’ll not post that.
As you can see I like space backgrounds (something neutral but pretty that I can keep as long as the device works) and I like keeping the main desktop clean and tidy. My actually files are much less well organized, its more of a hiding the mess in a closet situation, especially with my computer (the unnamed folder on my desktop holds all my random desktop shortcuts. my art and other pictures are spread out through a whole bunch of random folders in my documents)
It’s a really close recreation to Windows 95 theme-wise, and it makes me feel nostalgic in some way since Windows 98 (whose looks and feel greatly resembles W95) was my first OS I’ve ever used when i was a child before my parents got a newer Windows XP computer eventually.
Here’s a few applications running atop of the desktop just for fun
My desktop is a homemade Pokemon wallpaper using a screenshot of Ash’s Pokemon League win :) I also use Nimi Places to sort everything into little folders which saves a lot of space and makes me feel less insane with the amount of shit I’m downloading
I use Sidebar Diagnostics for that sidebar thingie, mostly just to make sure I’m not overheating my laptop because I have a tendency to not notice how hot it gets until it’s too late ^^"
I also used Winaero Tweaker to get my taskbar more transparent. I really prefer it like this compared to the Windows 10 default transparency settings.
My phone background is the Nintendo DS theme for Kustom that @ocean-waves recommended! I’ve tweaked it to take up the entire screen, and turned the DS Download Play icons into music control buttons! I keep tweaking and messing with it but I really like how it looks now.
I wont post my desktop since its a personal image, but I did want to share it so I’ll describe it: my partner in pajamas and my cat, both in bed hugging, squinting at me as I take a picture with the flash on. Besides the flash, it was dark since they were ready to fall asleep. Amazing image, the two creatures i love the most together in one place.
I really love these images. I really wish I was there, with the bluest skies and sea breeze, mixed with that old videogame vibe that just tells me this place doesnt exist.
