• paskalivichi@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Ok, someone please explain to me why default wallpapers are a story in any way?? And everytime a new version of a desktop comes out, I’m baffled to see that theres an actual discussion and debate about…default wallpapers??? Like in the same sense that people talk about ACTUAL desktop features…

    You guys don’t change your wallpaper??.. Who in the flying fuck cares about the goddamn default wallpaper?!?!?!?

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      1 year ago

      I actually don’t change mine if the default is nice. Or I keep it for a while till I replace it. Still baffles me that people think they warrant much discussion unless Gnome decides to ship a wallpaper with literal gnomes fucking or something.

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        “Why do you have a wallpaper with gnomes having sex?”
        “Meh, it’s the default, I can’t be bothered to change it.”

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          I’d definitely keep it on a personal machine just to get people to ask tbh

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      The GNOME wallpapers often have inner meaning, the stripe one denotes world temperature over the years getting warmer

      This one denotes Forest Fires

      Jacub Steiner is pretty creative

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        That’s actually…pretty well done, I saw that wallpaper and my first thought was forest fires.

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      A clean wallpaper is the first onboarding experience for a user. Some distros have horrible wallpapers. other than that wallpaper doesn’t matter. personally I did a lot of late night computer work so wanted a redish background. I found this image, did a deep search but coyld not find original artist/photographer.

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        Can confirm, I never thought I cared about wallpaper or that it made much difference but it turns out it was a big part of why I like elementOS/pantheon so much and after switching gnome’s wallpaper to a similar one I realised I liked it more

        Sounds dumb but it really has a subconscious effect on how much you like the DE as a whole

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          Totally. We are driven to look for beauty, form, symmetry in nature, and assymetry for interest. IMO a bad wallpaper could turnoff a potential new user if it has that janky feel. Zorin and Elementary seem very polished because they took the time to start with clean wallpaper and polish the UI. And I realize Ubuntu is a good distro but can you imagine recommending it to a C level exec and their first look is a faceted pather looking thing that seems like 90s tron vector graphics. Similarily Pop!_OS is great but some dude is going to see a minimal colour posterized robot scene and think is this on OS for kids? Don’t get me wrong I love posterized art, but not everyone does.

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      Agreed. Came into the comments to find out why this was worthwhile of a post and I still don’t understand.

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      1 year ago

      The first thing I do whenever I install any new OS is change the wallpaper, I dgaf about the default one lol

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      For me, the default wallpaper throws me back to the period it was made and reminds me of what it was like to use that version. This GNOME one feels a little generic and I swear I’ve seen it before. Feels like the right style to use in a dynamic wallpaper where colours randomly shift.

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      Im using endevourOS for about 6 months, before i used manjaro for 12 months, all without changing the default wallpaper