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Monday, January 12, 2026
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
What does your computer's desktop have? Select all that apply. If it changes, vote based on current status.
- Background image9 votes · 41%
- Icons9 votes · 41%
- Rainmeter / other widget things1 vote · 5%
- None of the above (solid color or no "desktop")3 votes · 14%
22 votes Multiple answers allowed Poll closed
i mostly am in fuck knows where folders in explorer or something and i like having a neutral back screen for when i have a non fullscreen thing running
I wish rainmeter didn't just give up being relevant after ~2010
what is even the thing people would use now for that
did i use an internet boomer term by accident
Replying to reorruatrnte #toughbrook Click to see original message
my option isnt here
wallpaper engine for video backgrounds
but you can't do all the cool rainmeter stuff
i mean i count that as no icons then
you have no desktop, but you have the desktop folder
Max, that's actually genius, wait so
i mean the same goes for me then max
you can use the folder still right
Technically I currently do not have a desktop background because I forgot to replace mine
but I usually have one
fuck
how did I not know that
i can turn my icons right now and see whatever random junk is there
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby people who do this are also insane. My previous boss had her screen entirely filled with icons to the point that you couldn't actually find what you needed. Literally pointless.
I agree, I don't like having to use a scroll bar on my file explorer, so if it gets to that point, I move things into different folders
it's all automated stuff from old installers for me
It's a working directory folder, that's a top-level location
50% of it is from
nevermind
wtf is this from?????
I INSTALLED RETROARCH????
I knew your computer was full of ants Pirate
Replying to reorruatrnte #toughbrook wtf is this from?????
looks like a shortcut, so just.... go to the file location
i mean i rememberd what it's from but it was funny
it was a steam game spooky or somebody got me but it was like 70 gb or something
so i never played it
If anyone has a hot tip to speed up Windows directories btw
I'd gladly take it
I continue to not understand how Windows is generationally bad at file tables
honsetly mostly what i do now that i think about it, is i just search files that i know exist somewhere in everything
everything is still the best search for sure
but I can't get over how after a directory has >100 things in it
it just can't handle
the worst thing about windows file explorer is how it insists on trying to compute metadata for every "audio file"