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Welcome to the 2023 Desktops Thread

 

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On 05/01/2023 at 07:58, freqnasty said:

Not many being posted.

Must be a lot of people with pornographic or provocative desktops 😆

Yeah this topic needs some love :) I enjoyed looking at other's desktops on forums many years ago. i'll do my part below.

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My desktop has pretty much looked the same since the Windows 7 era now, I like to keep things simple these days.

The background was saved from a Neowin desktop thread over a decade ago, so I'm not actually sure what its called. I'll upload a copy if anyone wants it however:

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I never keep the same desktop layout for a long time. So, some changes.

Clean:

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Dirty:

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Wallpaper from Wallhaven: https://wallhaven.cc/w/weq8y7

On 21/01/2023 at 18:00, Raphaël G. said:

I never keep the same desktop layout for a long time. So, some changes.

I do love your layouts Raphaël, they always look so clean.

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On 21/01/2023 at 13:00, Raphaël G. said:

I never keep the same desktop layout for a long time. So, some changes.

Clean:

image.thumb.png.a8af4ec6e2cdf43cc4b1967444eafcc8.png

Dirty:

image.thumb.png.456d305b2a051900ce0d8c1db80b3dc0.png

Wallpaper from Wallhaven: https://wallhaven.cc/w/weq8y7

what mail and twitter apps do you use?

On 21/01/2023 at 19:21, allannyholm said:

that's a beautiful setup @Raphaël G.

Thank you for sharing the wallpaper 

Thank you! And, you're welcome :) 

On 21/01/2023 at 22:24, InsaneNutter said:

I do love your layouts Raphaël, they always look so clean.

Thank you! I love clean and minimal desktops :) 

On 22/01/2023 at 12:19, HighOnAmbien said:

Pretty basic and boring

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Looks great!

On 22/01/2023 at 12:33, ultimate99 said:

what mail and twitter apps do you use?

The mail client is just Thunderbird. The Vimix icon set has an icon for Thunderbird that doesn't look like Thunderbird at all :). Twitter is just the Twitter website as set as an Edge PWA. It works really well as a PWA. Same thing for WhatApp if anyone would be interested. It's http://web.whatsapp.com/ set as an Edge PWA (sometimes I just prefer to type on my keyboard than on my phone).

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On 22/01/2023 at 06:02, Raphaël G. said:

The mail client is just Thunderbird. The Vimix icon set has an icon for Thunderbird that doesn't look like Thunderbird at all :). Twitter is just the Twitter website as set as an Edge PWA. It works really well as a PWA. Same thing for WhatApp if anyone would be interested. It's http://web.whatsapp.com/ set as an Edge PWA (sometimes I just prefer to type on my keyboard than on my phone).

You know there is a WhatsApp app in the AUR, right?  Also one as a Flatpak.

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On 05/01/2023 at 01:58, PaulATMOS said:

Not many being posted.

Must be a lot of people with pornographic or provocative desktops 😆

Nah. It's just not as a big of a thing like it used to be in the XP W7 days. I rarely do it anymore.

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finally got rid of rainmeter, seems pointless these days and no new interesting themes have been released in a long long time.

also most of the date i displayed on desktop (time, weather, net traffic) can easily now be displayed in the windows 11 taskbar.

just a blank desktop for now.
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