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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] donuts@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't have to be, I know plenty of people who use their desktop as their file system.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best part of multiple desktops is increased file storage limits!

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Lmao I gotta try this with a coworker, they are always complaining they have too many files on their desktop (a problem they create themselves)

[–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I got a jew laptop at work recently and the IT guy asked about Desktop icons. I told him I turn them off. He told me about our CFO who apparently keeps every file in Desktop. I can't imagine.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's a jew laptop? Does it wear a yarmulka? 😁

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

They've got chutzpah

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

HP, Hymie Pakardwitz

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did like putting a bunch of shortcuts to files and directories on my desktop, back when I still used that kind of UI.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Guys it's been 2 hours somebody ask him already

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[–] Undaunted@feddit.org 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had a professor in university who didn't use the grid layout and even had icons overlapping each other to fit more stuff on the desktop. It was wild

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"You can't arrange the icons by penis"

Source - The Website Is DOWN

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I fucking hate that that is a thing that can be done. I've seen it a few times and it drives me crazy

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, you just woke up and chose violence?

On a Sunday morning?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 36 points 11 months ago

he paid for entire screen and he's gonna use entire screen

[–] retrolasered@feddit.uk 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Plot twist, its a wallpaper

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

And the icon names are the lyrics to a specific song

[–] Kataelyna@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I actually made a wallpaper like this by moving icons and screenshotting until the whole screen was filled. Was funny trying to figure out which shortcuts were the real ones. Now I have enough stuff that I don't need to fake it. The trick is to have everything important in the taskbar, the rest is just there to fill space.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

I think my mom's desktop has overflown onto this poor fellow's.

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He had them all arranged by penis until web dude came along

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

Every coworker I've ever had

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Um hi.

This could be a picture of me. It's classic ADHD desktop, with things dragged 'for later'.

Later isn't today.

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[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 11 months ago

Basically an iPad

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People actually use their desktops?

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

laughs in tilling window manager

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

1 of the first things i do after installing linux on a laptop is disabling desktop.

On a tablet, i can understand muscle memory kicking in and launching apps easily but this is incomprehensible.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 11 months ago

I love the concept of desktop, it's just never worked for me, not on a pc, not on a phone. And I've been using Windows since version 1.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 11 months ago

Desktop #15 ... of 52.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Dude is crazy organized. Look at that perfect grid.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Eww, windows?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Gross. My home PCs have just the recycle bin. My work mac nothing (except the brief moment screenshots get put there because before I move them someone at Apple is a monster)

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, my GNOME desktop on Linux is just a picture. Apps, and files are indexed, you hit the "windows" key, commonly accessed apps are on a popup dock, as you start to type you get an immediate list of matches, whether its apps, filenames or file contents.

Never needed to add shortcuts

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There is a guy who needs arrange by penis.

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[–] leds@feddit.dk 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey that looks like my desktop! whenever I get a new laptop I put everything in a folder called "old desktop" on my desktop.

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Same with how macbooks look because all screenshots are automatically saved to desktop.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, that’s if you don’t hold your Option key with the shortcut which just copies it to your clipboard.

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[–] taxon@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right click→Sort by→Size→Profit

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Try this with Windows 98, it'll be a 15min boot time guaranted

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

At some point you just stop trying

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pro tip, if you do this create one single file on your desktop and dump it all in there make a blood pact with Satan The Devil, Ruler of the seven layers of Hell, may his name inspire terror in mortal souls, that you will not use the desktop for Files ever again only Icon's lest you suffer eternal Damnation.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

ssh satan@6.6.6.6

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did you know that you can have windows not show icons? It's great, since everything wants to default to "desktop"

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

This ruined my day

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