like for example, one time i was browsing through some neofetch screenshots and i found out that a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux. hmm or maybe they even have proprietary videogame images!! i used to think that was bad but now i realize that even if you have proprietary stuff as images like, furry fanart of some proprietary videogame, it’s like just a picture, a jpeg. but still, younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files, but i still enjoy linux. what do you think?? please
I bought my current wallpaper from an artist on fedi.
Link?
Thank you! What about the wallpaper?
Current one: https://mastodon.art/@tyiart/113408425804962271
Thanks!
instant execution
(/s)
When you say ‘younger me’ do you mean like four year old you, because eight year old current you doesn’t make sense? I have no idea what the whole point of this post is, other than it must be some chatgpt output someone thought would be funny to throw out.
i’m 21 years old, so sorry, and i don’t use chatgpt
younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files
That’s good for starters. What do you mean by “younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files”? Exactly what proprietary files are you talking about? Background pics are usually jpeg, or png, and those are not proprietary to linux, so I think that’s part of what has everyone confused about this. Are you also insinuating that people can only use certain backgrounds based on either belief or their own actual background? I am curious to hear your explanation if you aren’t a llm. And by the way, saying you don’t use chatgpt is exactly what I would expect chatgpt to reply with. LOL. I keed I keed.
by proprietary files i mean stuff like msi files or, psd or illustrator files (which gimp and inkscape can open with ease), and also if richard stallman was here i think he would say something like having images of proprietary software would be like endorsing them, like what if you had images of fascist dictators?? that would be his way of seeing things,i think so
Gotcha. Well, I guess being an old guy and having never correlated someone’s computer background to any kind of meaning other than they like that particular background, I guess I don’t see anything into it. But hey, I work with a bunch of terminals all day long so there’s not an opportunity to customize things there, and the one work machine that has a gui, I have just left the background as the default. That is a rule of mine, nothing personal on the work laptop.
Sadly, I think this is a much older, non-AI person who thinks that they’re funny.
We should probably execute them in Central Park via guillotine IMO.
I think people can use what they want as their wallpaper
TIL there’s people thinking about stuff like this. Honestly a wallpaper is just some image that you chose to make your desktop nice to look at to me. I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.
Every time I work with a Mac, Hackintosh, etcetera, the 5K upscale of XP Bliss is my default as a joke (except I think near the end of one school year, where I set the background to something from OS 9).
It was even my iPhone background for a while, though right now, it’s a random James Webb image.
I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.
Well now I suddenly care.
Why the hell do you want to watch the world burn?
;)
I have an AI-generated image that looks very much like Bliss, the prompt was "“Deep Blue sky. Small puffy, bright white clouds. Grassy green hill.”
Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn’t until a few months ago.
If I remember correctly I got them from this collection on archive.org and honestly they are just really nice quality pictures. But probably also a bit of nostalgia. 😄
No bodies business but the user what wallpaper they like.
I use images from the UK canal inferstructure where I spend much of my time.
If you’re willing to tell me to do otherwise. My response is going to be short and rude.
I’ve been a linux user for 25 years.
My computers are all named after Autobots and my wallpaper on each computer is a picture of that computer’s namesake from one of the various continuities.
That’s just how I roll out.
'till all are one. o7
If you’re a furry Linux user, you’re only allowed to use desktop backgrounds of Xenia. :P
Assuming you’re serious and I’m not being whoosed, remember that Linux is a tool, not a cause. Many use Linux because they like Linux, not because they want to purge all non-free things from their life.
raises trans, linux-using paw ^.^
Thanks for bringing this to my attention :3
A wild gunnerkrig fan!
Who cares?
Minding wallpapers if they’re not questionable or illegally obtained sounds like a symptom of a disorder to me. That’s my answer.
ok thanks but i was very obsessed with gnu
like for example, one time i was browsing through some neofetch screenshots and i found out that a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux.
younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files, but i still enjoy linux. what do you think?? please
What should they use in order to not freak younger you? A screenshot of some lines from the kernel source code? A picture of Stallman and Torvalds tenderly embracing (quite unlikely)?
On my Debian and Mint computers, I have countryside pictures (I live in Paris, I miss seeing some real country landscape, mind you) and paintings (oil and watercolors, all works I admire) and some illustrations (comics, manga, whatever I appreciate enough to be wanting to look at it from time to time).
Sorry for younger you but I don’t have a single image related to Linux nor to GNU philosophy, no matter how much I appreciate them.
freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files
I would suggest you read a little more about what the four essential freedoms are and how they relate to code and the user rights, not so much to do with art and wallpaper choice.
ok thanks so much and you’re very right yep!!! my wallpaper is twilight sparkle & spike from mlp, so i’ve become much better with the fact that, while i do like linux, i also like other stuff. but my main interest is linux of course
