Somnolence I generally try to stay away from too many icons on the desktop because I tend to forget I even have half the shortcuts
It might be an old habit of mine. I could've cut down several of those shortcuts too, but it feels comfortable seeing them there every once in a while. Like a quick assessment of all the programs I have. So it is mostly the opposite: it helps me to remember all the programs I have.
Albeit, truth be told, when I lost the system about a year ago, I also found out I have a lot of old unused programs on my old system. I do not quite remember how exactly I discovered it... My old system was half-alive, so I was installing new one while looking at the old, but I do not remember if I looked at the old desktop or just at the files. The point is, one way or another old programs manage to kind of wiggle into the system, like some coins into the cracks of your sofa.
It also helps having the most useful shortcuts in the corners of the screen; every now and then they are actually accessible even when several folders and tools are open, so I can quickly kickstart a Photoshop for a rapid edit or something along those lines.
Somnolence As I finished emotionally maturing at 12, this machine's rotating backgrounds are always YuGiOh themed.
I do not have rotating backgrounds, but I have about... 6 systems in total, and I use hot-rods and other cars as wallpapers in every single one of them... save for Windows 10, that doesn't deserve a custom wallpaper.
Ayayaya You're on 7, How's the compatibility with programs?
Well, everything you see on the screenshot works... otherwise it wouldn't be there. I do not race for the latest versions of software - more often than not I prefer versions about as old as my system, meaning that they were made for my system to start with, so compatibility is, like, intended. I turn off automatic updates wherever I can, as a matter of fact. It's not even because of the old system - I disliked automatic updates for years, like many other things that force even more internet in our lives. You never know what they will update, what compatibility issues with plug-ins and other parts of your system the update will rise and what parts of UI will move so you will have to get used to the UI all over again... so I prefer to stay on the versions that work. I feel that updates bring more troubles than benefits.
Of course, every now and then I encounter incompatibilities. Several of them have been resolved by nice program named VxKex. yt-dlp is also one of those things that dropped the Win 7 compatibility, but I found a guy who actually re-compailes all the latest GitHub releases of yt-dlp for Win XP (and, subsequently, for Win 7) - let me know if you need a link. I was also able to launch Asterigos: Curse Of The Stars on Win 7, since someone provided all the necessary Unreal Engine settings files... so all in all, most of the programs work quite fine and/or fixable, and I do not feel myself hindered much.
For extreme cases, I do have Win 10 on a separate HDD. The system is an ass and caused me more troubles than I could imagine. Either way, I only really used it for several games so far, and I prefer to keep the disk with Win 10 disconnected and as far from my PC as possible, like some kind of dark articfact.
It was, as a matter of fact, Windows 10 that caused me to lose my main system last year. Among other things. I can't see myself moving on Win 10, like, ever; they will have to make a much better OS for me to move away from Win 7.
Baloney Pony My personal DWM configuration. Sadly had issues with mpd and mpris. Second monitor is a CRT I use for retro games!
Am I the only one who doesn't see images in the post? Tried both PC and mobile phone - the result is zero.
@Lumeinshin ?
