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Personal Question

what do ur desktops look like

seriously tho, i'm curious. i had this idea crop up in my head last night and i'd thought it'd be fun

lemme start by showing off my shitty old desktop as an icebreaker:

https://i.imgur.com/eQilZLN.jpg

plain, basic, boring; you could find blades of grass more interesting than this desktop.

if you couldn't already tell by the taskbar being broken at the bottom right, this is actually Windows 10! As a little project, I decided to give my pc a bit of a nostalgic makeover. Fortunately, it didn't take much effort to find the WinXP wallpapers in a reasonable resolution. It took a bit more, however, to actually find both an XP Luna skin that didn't completely break in Win10 as well as a skin app that could apply it; And don't even get me started on the tedious process of applying the appropriate soundfont. Yes, i even got it to sound like WinXP!

So, why all the effort just to make it look and sound both old and basic?

Well, it was all to commemorate the old family PC. Simple as that. That old hunk of junk kicked the bucket years ago, but I still remember learning all I know about the internet through it. Couldn't just leave it as a distant memory, so I had it live on through my current PC

Plain, basic, boring; just how I remember it

As you can tell, this blog was mostly an excuse to talk about my shitty desktop.

Feel free to ramble on about your own desktops in the comments! I'd like to hear the stories behind them, if there is any to them that is.

Ciao.

Comments

Alessandro	1602531000000 Here it is, hopefully :) https://imgur.com/lFdmD1z
hehpilled	1601291689000 the old windows aesthetic always gives a feeling of comfy nostalgia, also your desktop looks really cool :D
poltergeist	1601291245000 i have the same basic aesthetic and i was nostalgic too so i did it HAHA still a bit different though? i love customizing my desktop with different shit so this is just one of them. https://i.imgur.com/4w9Pabx.jpg
YoSoy	1601189377000 Tengo esta gigante taza de peltre de color café en medio de una Galaxia, cool no? La saqué de una portada de un disco de Café Tacvba, no tengo nada descargado mas que Spotify porque mi laptop no tiene nada de memoria :/ https://i.ibb.co/TBq9Tsz/escritorio.png
BEsKuP3hN	1601183918000 Still on win7, gonna move up to win10 when i get my new computer (after 7 years of this one) this coming christmas or March https://i.imgur.com/O5MNRty.png i have a custom theme and someone thought it was Vista at one point i dont blame them :D
unplugred	1601182604000 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/256504939289772032/759638958027046982/Clipboard05.png hid all icons just because im tired of organizing my desktop and i dont even use it. everything's in the start menu and i dont need to minimize a thousand windows to access that
Nah Dude	1601181236000 deus ex: nice, sonic adventure: NICE I totally relate to everything u say in this blog hahah! I've actually thought about making an Arch Linux skin that looks like XP just because I miss our old home computer so much. Now I have a mac which is nice but I still miss XP https://i.imgur.com/eLasTqW.png my desktop looks pretty boring
Jaden Desmond	1601173696000 I have a background folder that cycles through some japanese and eastern asia esc backgrounds, here is what it looks like right now https://i.ibb.co/c3z2DpC/2020-09-26.png another user called zoe made a similar blog a while back which is cool to look at too https://myspace.windows93.net/blog.php?id=2951&b=7
koala71783	1601153644000 https://i.imgur.com/syjwn6r.png mine used to be windows 7 but i changed it to windows 10 so i could use something i have some things on here but most of it use for myspace and my worlds. i had to get rid of my worlds because i havent shown this yet