what do you think of people who use linux but use non-linux related stuff as their wallpaper??
what do you think of people who use linux but use non-linux related stuff as their wallpaper??
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
This is the most unhinged shit I ever read
Hahaha that was actually funny to read, good shitpost OP
We really need a Linux circlejerk community for this type of thing.
I think people can use what they want as their wallpaper
I've been using Linux for a couple decades now -- I use Windows at work and came to like bing desktop; it's unexpectedly nice.
On a scale from 1 to 10, how autistic would you say you are? Because caring about proprietary motives on the wallpaper of other people sounds a little divergent to me.
how autistic
retarded*
Autism has little to do with it - I’m on the spectrum and I have “proprietary” Star Trek wallpapers on all my Linux machines - Ent D and DS9 on desktop, DS9 crew on laptop, Cerritos on that one old Chromebook I installed Bcachefs Debian Testing on for fun once, Borg cube on my Surface…
Now my wallpaper choices and overall Star Trek fandom… you could probably make a reasonable guess on where that comes from. 😉
I think the original commenter suggested autism because of OP's rather... peculiar hyperfixation. Hyperfixations on atypical things are common in people on the spectrum.
To me, it's either that or OP is very very young.
Good choice for the Microsoft Surface - The BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
my brain is so fucking cooked I can't tell if op is joking or just a teenager
I wrote (not only, but some) more intelligent things on the Internet when I was a teenager.
umm,,i'm not joking or am a teenager, i'm 21, it's just that when i was 18 and stuff i was really into that, into linux. into free software, and my entire life was about that,, i still like gnu but i also like other stuff like the furry fandom!!
What do I think? I think it's normal to have wallpapers that aren't related to the kernel of you OS and I'm struggling to make sense of how people setting their wallpaper to something they like could possibly be a problem.
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.
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?
;)
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. 😄
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.
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 they might be using linux for something else other than taking screenshots and being fanboys
Man, if you're freaking out over """proprietary wallpapers""" just wait until you see how many MacOS clones there are in r/unixporn lmao, chill.
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
I don't think that purity testing people is an attractive method of talking about free software? We should meet people where they are, and besides, if games are good, they're good. Doom started out as proprietary software and got GPL'd. It's also cool to think that reverse engineering software, like in the case of OpenMorrowwind, is a thing. Besides, I pirate proprietary software all the time with cracked DRM. The harm is in the restriction of user freedom, not necessarily in the existence of the laws if you view the laws as fake and don't adhere to them. Let's talk about cracking DRM and decompiling these games. Let's talk about modding them. Let's talk about making servers and playing them online together.
WTF?
You ok bro? Go touch grass mate
yes i'm ok thanks!!
A wild gunnerkrig fan!
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
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
I've been using solid black desktop background since the 90s!
Eyy! Glad to hear I'm not the only weirdo in this sub!
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
Sadly, I think this is a much older, non-AI person who thinks that they're funny.
There's nothing more foss coded than furries
Who cares?
Why would anyone care about what other people have as desktop wallpaper? I don't even look at my own wallpaper that much
I bought my current wallpaper from an artist on fedi.
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
What you use as a wallpaper is personal choice. Maybe you like anime. Maybe you are a fan of a game franchise. It's personal choice, so it shouldn't matter to anyone else what you have on your wallpaper.
Shouldn't you be allowed to wear Adidas shoes, since you run Linux on your PC?
If you aren't compiling your own shoes you are legally forbidden to use Linux.
Sorry, I don't make the rules.
In case you're interested, its actually really easy to just grab this big Git repo of hundreds of Linux related wallpapers from different distros. Roughly half are gorgeous landscapes and you can be assured the photographers all gave explicit permission for their work to be distributed as wallpapers. Check it out!
My Wallpaper is a set of "Neon" artwork I did on Night Cafe. They have black backgrounds which can be centered and merge with the black border around (so it always looks like the art was made for this particular screen setup, including the panel on the left. One of my favorites: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/Z0dVGQxc4Uyy3jCm8Nyz?ru=waspentalive
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.
We should probably execute them in Central Park via guillotine IMO.
a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux
What you're experiencing is sonder.
Most people are not obsessed monomaniacs with room for only one interest in their lives. That means that most Linux users are interested in things other than free software, so many will choose to "dress up" their computers in ways that showcase their other interests, and may use material that is not under copyleft licenses to do so. If this causes you anxiety or confusion, you may want to speak to a mental health professional. Seriously.
