Spyke
lemmy.world

Meanwhile at Tuxedo OS:

Manager: "So, we need a set of Wallpapers for that Linux we have."

Worker: "Alright, so i suggest that we add some vistas from germany in there and some nature photography."

Manager: "Classic and beautiful, but i feel like we need a little twist to that."

Worker: "Alright, so was if we were to run an algorithm that turns random parts of the wallpaper into polygonal art?"

Manager: "How random exactly?"

Worker: "Totally! The only rule is that half of the wallpaper has to have that look but there's no rhyme or reason to which parts will be turned into polygons."

Manager: "I love it. Can we also super impose our logo on the wallpaper so that people can always rest assured that the Linux they booted is still the Linux they installed and that it's our Linux?"

Worker: "Absolutely sir!"

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Kuadhualreply
lemm.ee

I have to google image search that. Pretty accurate.

Duck duck go only showed person wearing tuxedo.

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whateverreply
lemmy.world

Same results for me.. Are we using duckduckgo wrong? I want to make it understand me

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Tetsuoreply
jlai.lu

I end up always using the !g shortcut and using DDG at this point is googling with extra steps.

No wonder google has a monopoly on search engines.

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olutukkoreply
lemmy.world

There are some that work kinda like google but are still anonymous. I'm not sure what they're called butnI can look it up. Edit: startpage.com , never troed it myself on daily drive but it waa mentioned in our cyber security class at school. I see now that the other commenter mentioned it too :D I'm propably going to switch to it now

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Lmao I looked it up, and it looks exactly like a Gimp filter I used just to get an image in a GUI library wrapper project just to have an image to load 20 years ago.

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lemmy.world

This looks like something I made when I first tried out 3D rendering. In 1999

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Man this brings back memories of installing Fedora Core 6 at my internship. I think I jumped to F10 after we did a round of updates. I started distro-hopping after that so I missed a bunch but I really like Fedora 16s wallpaper.

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This one from 2010 has got to be my favourite:

Reminds me of being on the Millenium Falcon

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sh.itjust.works

I have a bunch of default wallpapers from windows and MacOS on shuffle in my KDE setup. I'm pretty amused with it, in my own dorky way.

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honestly I don't like the theming endeavourOS gives it'd be better if they shipped the DE as is.

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Honestly tho, it's amazing how bad a lot of distros look out of the box. Often even the preferred DE doesn't look quite right and all the alternative ones are just awful ports.

Slapping your logo onto something and matching the color scheme isn't designing dammit :D

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I actually really emjoyed fedora 37 default wallpaper. That kinda surreal cartoonish town looked nice

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100%

New Debian user here, pretty happy with the experience overall, but the default wallpapers...damn...

Mint ain't much better lol.

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Obireply
sopuli.xyz

Is that the one that changes by itself? I tried it but it puts an ugly "wallpapers by bing" or something on the bottom right corner.

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The one I use, the gnome extension, does not put any watermark on the image

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Objection.

I always run the default blue wallpaper with debian logo on it. Just simple and good.

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lemmy.world

This is true, but it's also pretty much the only "shortcoming" of the OS

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alephreply
lemm.ee

I'm sorry, but you are either blind or crazy.

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Yes, "blind" and "crazy". Because what are persoanal preferences anyway.

Edit: "personal" but I ain't changing that thing

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JackLSaucereply
lemmy.world

I could see this being perceived very differently based on the monitor on which it's displayed

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alephreply
lemm.ee

It was presumably designed for old CRT monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Either way, it's not 2005 any more.

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Ghoelianreply
feddit.nl

It's 16:10 (1920x1200), pretty sure it's the second most used aspect ratio, after 16:9.

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I meant originally. The version above was taken from an unofficial source.

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Having just looked through them all, they were fine up until the latest 8-9 versions, out of almost 40.

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Disagree. I love F34 and F36 wallpapers. Rest are mediocre imo but not terrible.

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lemm.ee

Distro bashing/slandering! Yeaaaaah! Do Debian next!

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