The Post Your Desktop Thread

[Ota-kun]

Trying to not use the three notorious skins ;O Its very very difficult.

B+W Rainmeter

[Endless Soul]

Some very nice graphics in this thread,

[Haladflire65]

Ahhhh... I'm blaming it all on Kaze, Tusyoshi and Tobuscus for getting me hooked on Assassin's Creed right before exams

Spoiler:

[delorean2200]

I ended up back at using windows, problem was that i ended up over complicating everything and loosing to much HDD space. Their's also the part of me finding out that the sound drivers provided for my card with linux aren't verry good when you turn up the volume... I probably wont try Linux again until a) i get a laptop b) compiz and apps such as games can work togheter plus the sound drivers can work good at louder volumes...

So anyway the desktop... NSFW:

Spoiler for NSFW:

This version is with the gadgets just to make it safe, if you have an account that enables you to view mature content on DA you can view it here.

[synaesthetic]

LOL gadget censorship!

Edit: New wallpaper for me. Lovely art I found on konachan.

Spoiler for 1680x1050:

[AnimeTheme]

Originally Posted by delorean2200

So anyway the desktop... NSFW:

A good use of gadgets... LOL

[Shimapan]

Since I just found a great new wallpaper, I wanted to post my desktop

Spoiler for nsfw:

[Cream]

I need a new monitor , honestly this resolution sucks so bad .

Anyone wanna suggest some good skins/themes for rainmeter?

Originally Posted by delorean2200

Well i'm finally done with configuring linux mint 9 as my main and the bit of 7 install i got left as a backup in case i wanna play some PC demanding game.

Here are some screens (used spoilers mainly cause this spot is a bit long):

Spoiler:

Desktop 1:



Desktop 2:



Desktop 3:



Desktop 4:



Desktop 5 (separate account for games since they don't get along to good with compiz but since user switching is almost instant its np):



Now for some of the features:

The Desktop Preview (quite neat feature it also allows me to work and move windows between the desktops):



Transparency Example:



Application Switcher (alt+tab):



The Cube (deformed as cylinder):







and this is what's left of my 7 tuned only for performance:

Using ubuntu?

[delorean2200]

Linux-Mint (derived from ubuntu), seems quite better then ubuntu, also doesn't use the annoying unity...

[Shimapan]

Originally Posted by delorean2200

Linux-Mint (derived from ubuntu), seems quite better then ubuntu, also doesn't use the annoying unity...

Unity was originally designed for netbooks, for which it's nicely suited. For ordinary desktops however it's quite poorly fitting
You can still use the ordinary Gnome shell in the new Ubuntu, just pick it from the login screen.
Or, if you're smart, you'll simply use Kde instead

I tried out Mint myself not too long ago just out of curiosity, but fuond that while they did a few things better, they did several other things worse and even broke a few things... so that overall, you would still be better off with Ubuntu

[delorean2200]

KDE has a few flaws, like stability issues, network manager is seriously flawed (ADSL/DSL doesn't work), compiz compatibility is a bit more limited, the only thing i liked about KDE was that the ability to have a different wallpaper for each desktop is integrated, out of the box KDE may look nicer but gnome has more space for improvements. With gnome i had a none of those issues, it felt snappier performed better and was more friendly. I tested both Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux-Mint, Mint KDE and found Linux-mint (based on gnome) to be have performed the best plus being the most stable. Also btw Ubuntu plans on droping the normal gnome shell all togheter so soon you wont even be able to do that at the login screen, not to mention the fact that Unity is though the first thing you see and its not very user friendly, Mint's approach is better it gives the user everything he needs to be able to use his computer nicely and if he wants something different its pretty easy to change.

[yeahitschris]

decided to change my lockscreen slide and icons for homescreen, also took out the widget on homescreen.

[ninryu]

Originally Posted by Rikimtasu

v2,with CA added:

Spoiler for well tested:

Wallpaper, please? ♥¬♥

[Ota-kun]

ideolo ftw

[Shimapan]

Originally Posted by delorean2200

KDE has a few flaws, like stability issues, network manager is seriously flawed (ADSL/DSL doesn't work), compiz compatibility is a bit more limited, the only thing i liked about KDE was that the ability to have a different wallpaper for each desktop is integrated, out of the box KDE may look nicer but gnome has more space for improvements.

Never had any stability issues with Kde, only with Gnome.
Compiz likewise never gave me any issues.
For the network manager - true, the Kde network manager is the only thing about Kde that is junk
That's why I'm using the Gnome network manager (nm-applet). Problem solved.

Originally Posted by delorean2200

Also btw Ubuntu plans on droping the normal gnome shell all togheter so soon you wont even be able to do that at the login screen, not to mention the fact that Unity is though the first thing you see and its not very user friendly, Mint's approach is better it gives the user everything he needs to be able to use his computer nicely and if he wants something different its pretty easy to change.

Yes, I heard about their plans to drop classical Gnome... but as I'm not using it anyway, I don't care
For Mint, as I said - while it many have one or two things better than plain Ubuntu, it breaks a lot of things which worked fine in Ubuntu. When I tried it not too long ago, several things left the impression of a poorly done hack job

@yeahitschris
That's a seriously dull wallpaper
Can't you customise the wallpaper on the iPhone and are thus stuck with such lame stuff?

[MetalCookie]

Left 4 Dead 2. <3

[delorean2200]

Originally Posted by Shimapan

Never had any stability issues with Kde, only with Gnome.
Compiz likewise never gave me any issues.
For the network manager - true, the Kde network manager is the only thing about Kde that is junk
That's why I'm using the Gnome network manager (nm-applet). Problem solved.

I had crashes and errors at about every restart with KDE and was a bit sloopy moving, didn't really said that compiz itself had issues i just said its a bit limited compared to gnome.

Originally Posted by Shimapan

For Mint, as I said - while it many have one or two things better than plain Ubuntu, it breaks a lot of things which worked fine in Ubuntu. When I tried it not too long ago, several things left the impression of a poorly done hack job

Like ?

[delorean2200]

Changed with one of my fav anime Kunoichi's:

Spoiler for NSFW:

[synaesthetic]

Her boobs are bigger than her head... 0.o suspension of disbelief shattered!

[CMSensei]

@delorean O-o wow is all I have to say...to the size of her boobs.