This is from five months ago, but my desktop hasn’t changed much since:
(art is my own; made in POV-Ray)
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Love the idea of adding common shortcuts on the desktop! I’m always forgetting mine, along with common terminal commands that I use for apps that aren’t included in the apps menu or anything.
mine is pretty barebones with a commission i got of my OC (swaps to a different theme at night)
i usually i try to keep stuff NOT on the left side, but that’s my messy disorganized pile of ‘i’ll eventually do something with these/need them for something’, otherwise i mostly just keep games on the desktop for easy access
(i used to have an invisible folder, but the issue with that is ive very much deleted it by accident before)
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Right now, this is what the desktop is like. I doubt I’ll stick with this image for the background but I try to swap them out when needed. Recently was able to retrieve some Black Butler wallpapers that I used to use a lot back in the day. But for now, I’m sticking to the one that ended up inspiring the persona a bit.
And this is the home screen of my Android phone. Censored out the location used in weather app for good measure. Most of the wallpaper is covered by the amounts of apps and folders as well as some shortcuts to online websites I frequent.
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Oh wow, I haven’t thought of/heard of POV-Ray in years. It’s so nice to be reminded it’s a thing🙂
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Here it goes mine!
I really enjoy this artwork from caph and decided to put it as my wallpaper.
On my phone it’s a mess, so i’m just gonna to post my desktop xD.
Pretty minimalist but i really enjoy the clean aesthetic of it.
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i’ll share screenshots from my PC and also my laptop because i’ve been using my laptop more. i use conky widgets on both of them and i like catppuccin but otherwise i’m not huge on ricing or anything. i like customization but i’m also quite comfortable with LXQt and apt so i won’t be trying arch or wayland anytime soon, hahah.
PC:
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desktop screen shot showing a custom wallpaper edited by me of hanni from new jeans against a diagonal rainbow stripe and a purple background. there’s a sidebar with system information and the weather. the taskbar is on the top
laptop:
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desktop screen shot from my laptop showing a custom wallpaper of new jeans group also with a diagonal rainbow stripe and a purple background but it’s lighter and more pastel. to the left are some conky widgets showing my last played song, itoshi utakata to by seireki 13 ya, and the time the screen shot was taken at. the taskbar is at the top
…can you tell i love newjeans hahah
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Updated! 
The art is from SecondLina, specifically from here!. I adore her little crow comics. :3
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This is my desktop on my laptop:
The original image was blue and shipped with Gnome. Because I prefer Gnome, I changed the hue in GIMP and registered the light and the dark version as dynamic wallpaper.
The setup on my phone is quite minimal too:
The apps are Vanadium, Moshidon, FreshRSS, AntennaPod & Retro Music. The launcher is Kvaesitso.
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not me weeping over a crow comic this pride! awwww
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my computer broke at the beginning of the month so i basically have a brand new one now and i dont really know how i want my icons to be arranged (i dont remember the layout of the old one well enough to copy it) but at least now my computer can run my fish video wallpaper
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Here is my Arch Linux and KDE Plasma desktop:
I like to customise the tools I use every day, including my PC desktop, so I chose Arch Linux as my Linux distro and KDE Plasma as my desktop environment, which offers many options for making your desktop truly your own.
I’m also a huge fan of the Catppuccin colour scheme, so I apply the colour scheme to almost everything on my desktop. The Catppuccin Arch Linux wallpaper in the screenshot was made by me.
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Here’s mine! KDE Plasma on Kubuntu. Not 100% done, still some things I’d like to tweak or add, but done enough to share. All I did was take the base Breeze Dark theme and made it purple (it’s even called “breeze dark purple” in settings lol). Simple, but I’ve never done anything like this before as I’m still relatively new to Linux so I’m still very happy with what I’ve managed.
The background is just a purple night sky, since it got covered up. I know the windows are not really part of the “home screen” but I’m proud I figured out how to make them all purple just by poking around lol.
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I don’t even remember how long I’ve had this particular aesthetic on the desktop, but I do still love the art, lol.
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Devuan (Debian without SystemD), X11, KDE Plasma 6, dual monitor setup.
I probably change wallpaper every 6-8 months. Most of the time I can’t see it as I have many windows open.
I want to think I would like to be one of those terminal only tiling window manager die hards, but I’m not. I like graphics. I like windows. I actually really enjoy TWM (Tom’s), as its really awesome. But recently, I just thought, why am I trying to make my computer look a certain way. I want whimsical, I want fun, I want happy, I want that feeling that I got the first time I saw GEM, or MacOS, or loaded Windows from DOS! So I chose a fun icon pack, some colorful theme elements and window decorations, and I don’t really worry about how much of the terminal I use.
I use my computer to do things, not to make a computer look like something else. Case in point, here is what my desktop looks like when I am actually typing this:
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I’ve had Debian Sid running on this Thinkpad T60 for a few years now. I bought this machine in 2016, and it was manufactured in 2006, so it’s 20 years old and I’ve had it for 10. Still works fine as long as I avoid sites that avoid JavaScript.
I spend a lot of time in Emacs and xterm, so that’s what you’re seeing in this screenshot. The monospace font is Berkeley Mono, which IMO was $75 well spent.
And here’s the wallpaper I use:
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That’s hardcore! +1 for Emacs, I recently returned to it after two decades and felt like coming home from a long absence.
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It’s a hell of an editor. I still haven’t mastered it, and both Firefox and VS Code make it look as dainty as vi.
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