[Theme] Show us your desktop

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A natural theme for the digital era. We spend probably more time looking at our monitor(s) than through the view finder of the camera.

Just take a screen dump and post to show your local chaos. A snapshot of our daily mill.

[Peter Forsell]

Well.... 18% gray it is 


desk by foppa2009, on Flickr

[John Geerts]

Nice idea. It's true too much time is spend behind the screen. But luckily I don't have a television 

One of the two screens on my desk at the moment...

[simato73]

Real and virtual desktop...
It's actually over a year old but I guess it does not matter.

[Jakov Minić]

That's a beauty, Simone

[simato73]

That's a beauty, Simone

Thanks. There is nothing I am as proud of.

[ColinM]

What do you mean this isn't what you had in mind?

My desktop a): (the state of organisation here is comparable to the clarity of my thinking)

My desktop b): (part way through an SSD upgrade, move to Win 10 and migration of data from a laptop HD)

[afx]

My imaging machines all us the ECI image...

cheers
afx

[afx]

But my office laptop uses theres two from Namibia(Etosha) and Austin (Congress Bridge)

cheers
afx

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Ambiguity is a sure way of making people think to arrive at their own interpretation  .

I have a test machine set up with Win10 and not yet convinced this is an improvement.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Another desktop. Can't escape the cores.

[ColinM]

Thanks Bjorn.
I guess the test of a theme like this is that enough latitude for interpretation will ensure a long, rich and diverse stream of contributions!

And back to your screenshots, can you give some background to the physical displays you use on your machines? Are you showing us a virtual landscape desktop that is spread over two (or more) monitors side by side, or something you scroll.....?

[ColinM]

I have a test machine set up with Win10 and not yet convinced this is an improvement.

Me neither, but I am not hitting loads of issues either. Because I did it at the same time as moving to an SSD, the overall effect is positive so it's likely to stay.

In previous years, I would have pored over the internals far more. The strange thing is that now that I spread my activities over more and more o/s's, the majority of my activity is through browsers. The oddities of Win10 are no worse than the difference between Windows, iOS, Android etc

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Thanks Bjorn.
I guess the test of a theme like this is that enough latitude for interpretation will ensure a long, rich and diverse stream of contributions!

You are correct.

And back to your screenshots, can you give some background to the physical displays you use on your machines? Are you showing us a virtual landscape desktop that is spread over two (or more) monitors side by side, or something you scroll.....?

All my workstations are set up with  2-3 monitors. Just showing the chaos that reigns.

As to Win10, agree that a lot of it makes sense. But hadn't been Microsoft if not some nasty quirks had been thrown into the mix. Thus my hesitatation to "upgrade" for the tiem being.

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Untitled by Joergen Ramskov, on Flickr

I haven't bothered replacing the background image, I simply use the default Apple ones. I rarely look at the desktop so I don't see the point.

As for Win10, I think it is pretty decent, I have upgraded 4 machines (including a Thinkpad from 2006) and have it running in a virtual machine as well. I haven't experienced any issues. They have basically forced everyone to run Windows Update by default. It's bound to cause trouble at some point when they miss a critical bug in an update, but compared to the alternative, I think it's a wise choice. Android is a huge mess in that regard.