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[MikeWalsh]

@GatorsFan :-

Heh. Y'know, that looks awfully like a black'n'white version of one I used with Puppy 'Slacko' 5.6.0 about 10 years ago, shortly after joining the Puppy community....

That one was black, dark grey and a kind of orangey reddish-brown... Looked pretty neat.


Mike.

 

[Alexzee]

Slackware 15.0 on a Asus Tuf Gaming custom built desktop.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Slackware 15.0 on a Asus Tuf Gaming custom built desktop.

I only see a wallpaper?

 

[Alexzee]

MX Linux on a 12 year old laptop. Runs great!

 

[Alexzee]

I only see a wallpaper?

Next time I boot into Slackware I'll take another shot, Posted the wallpaper instead by accident.

 

[theLegionWithin]

I keep a laptop at the office to use as a background music platform, but the one I've had there for the last 2 years started hanging on Friday so it's slated to come home tomorrow & go back into the junk pile. resurrected a 9470m from the junk pile this week to replace it. ~13 years old, no battery, no rear cover, duct tape to hold the ssd in, but otherwise it works fine.

 

[MikeRocor]

MX Linux on a 12 year old laptop. Runs great!
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Way cool desktop, but I absolutely hate that clock display.

 

[AlphaObeisance]

One of a kind <3.

 

[theLegionWithin]

@AlphaObeisance where are you getting your backgrounds from? that one is epic

 

[AlphaObeisance]

@AlphaObeisance where are you getting your backgrounds from? that one is epic

Le' zelgoog muh friend.

 

[Cyberbleuet]

 

[AlphaObeisance]

@AlphaObeisance where are you getting your backgrounds from? that one is epic

Anime 3440x1440 Resolution Wallpapers UltraWide Quad HD 1440P

3440x1440 Anime Wallpapers For UltraWide Quad HD 1440P Devices

hdqwalls.com

Found it bud.

 

[909mjolnir]

mine is just a plain solid black background, no texture.
it saves on battery power sometimes, and my eyes are always distracted by clutter and widgets and tray stuff, so i keep it hidden until i need it.

the only stuff i have on display is the XFCE analog clock, my wifi bars, and my volume icon, two workspace arrows, and one icon for the applications. it's really too much as it is. but I keep it all shoved to the side (not at the bottom).

I might be slightly off, but if i do anything more it distracts my eyes too much.

 

[MikeRocor]

mine is just a plain solid black background, no texture.
it saves on battery power sometimes, and my eyes are always distracted by clutter and widgets and tray stuff, so i keep it hidden until i need it.

the only stuff i have on display is the XFCE analog clock, my wifi bars, and my volume icon, two workspace arrows, and one icon for the applications. it's really too much as it is. but I keep it all shoved to the side (not at the bottom).

I might be slightly off, but if i do anything more it distracts my eyes too much.

It's all about "choice" and "preferences". There's nothing "off" about your desktop - and I'll bet it's not all that uncommon. You probably won't see many screenshots posted of desktops like that because it's, deliberately, "not much to look at".

I don't go for quite that level of minimalism, but my desktop is deliberately not flashy nor exciting - if I want to just relax my eyes for a bit, I can got to an unused desktop (I keep ten of them around even though I rarely use more than four) and rest my eyes on my somewhat muted wallpaper.

 

[f33dm3bits]

 

[MikeWalsh]

Hi, gang. Thought y'all might find this worth a watch. Just a bit of a laugh really (for some of you, no doubt, shaking your heads in disbelief & thinking to yourselves "Euurrghh!")

It's a "peek" into the mechanics of my desktop appearance & operation.....mostly home-grown, and self-built/constructed. See what ya think:-

Mike.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Hi, gang. Thought y'all might find this worth a watch.

Thank you for sharing Mike, I really enjoyed your video.
I think now I understand why you so much like puppy, your DE is certainly interesting and rich in usability.

Animations are certainly cool too.
btw. if right top corner, is that conky?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Hi, gang. Thought y'all might find this worth a watch.
It's a "peek" into the mechanics of my desktop appearance & operation.....mostly home-grown, and self-built/constructed. See what ya think:-

Thanks for sharing, will definitely watch it, I watched the first minute but will finish it later. Gotta say I love your English accent! You also have a new subscriber to your channel

 

[MikeWalsh]

@CaffeineAddict :-

Glad you like it. Yes, Puppy has a "charm" all of her own, though of course, like any other Linux distro.....the sky's the limit (and limited ONLY by your imagination). Graphic design has been a consuming passion of mine for more than 50 years now. Does it show?

The top-right? No; that's gKrellM.....Bill Wilson's long-standing masterpiece, round which an entire community has existed for many years. The name, um.....well; you'd have to be a fan of the 1956 sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (a well-known science-fiction 'classic') to really understand that one, but that's where the inspiration came from, apparently. This is the film that introduced 'Robby the Robot' to an unsuspecting world.....and pioneered the very first use of all electronic music for its score. It stars a very young Leslie Nielsen, in one of his first-ever leading roles for the cinema.

Bill Wilson was a HUGE sci-fi fan.

As for the bottom-right, well; Puppy's native 'pWidgets' IS Conky-based. We have our veteran developer zigbert to thank for that one. It's very popular among the Puppy community.

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@f33dm3bits :-

Lolol!! What IS it with you guys and the British accent? I've talked this way for years; mostly Norfolk 'native', but traces of Yorkshire & London 'Cockney' thrown in...

Born in Islington - within the sound of Bow Bells; that's the Cockney for you - I was adopted at the tender age of 9 months, and very soon moved up to Yorkshire with my adoptive parents, where I spent my formative years. At the age of ten, we then moved down to Norfolk where the old man's work sent him.....and I've been here ever since.

Don't expect the rest of the channel to be anywhere near as good. I only started doing vids for Puppy around 7 or 8 years ago; experiments in the early days, and getting better over the years as Puppy's screen-casting software has steadily improved. The early stuff is CRAP!

Thanks for the subscription, though. It's all appreciated.


Mike.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Thanks for sharing, will definitely watch it, I watched the first minute but will finish it later. Gotta say I love your English accent! You also have a new subscriber to your channel

@MikeWalsh I watched the full video. Cool setup! Thanks for showing your Puppy setup!

Just one thing. You do know you can get apps for stuff like Zoom, Teams , and Jitsi? For example this is what I use for Teams: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux Yes it's an electron app but I prefer that over using pwa's.