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Least cluttered Windows Desktop:

I absolutely do it the other way. Nothing is on my desktop except for the trash bin. There is a shortcut to the file explorer and browser pinned to the task bar. And that's it.

Microsoft: put it in OneDrive. We will use your content to train our AI models. No really this is fine.

Me: "I've got an elaborate folder structure for all my documents."

Windows: "You want to put this in the root directory of OneDrive."

Me: "No, I want to put it in \SpecialFiles\ProjectName\IterationNo\DetailedSchematic"

Windows: "Root directory of OneDrive it is."

Good god. Putting stuff in the desktop is a big yuck. Your desktop probably looks like your room.

I'd be happy if those apps were asking to save to Documents like in the screenshot. But alas, reality is much more cruel. They always want to save to some vague OneDrive location, and won't even show you the local file browser without extra steps.

Microsoft and application developers treat the Documents folder like a total dumping ground for whatever random nonsense they can dream up. No wonder people look elsewhere. Need to store user files? Documents. A database? Documents. Giant cache files? Documents. Config? Documents. Executables? Fuck it put those in Documents too.

Why would I ever store my real documents in a folder so littered with shit that I can never find anything? It's not like the search actually works.

Also as a Linux user myself and to head off any smugness, developers do the same thing with the home directory so users end up inventing weird ways to stay organized.

Saving to desktop is insane behaviour and the OP just told on herself.

I am the opposite and I absolutely hate it when I have to work on someone's laptop with cluttered desktop and folders. Mine only has a taskbar at bottom and clock widget at bottom right corner. All temporary files goes to downloads or to organised directories. What's the point of having a nice wallpaper if you can't enjoy it.

Everything downloads to the desktop, that way it's in my face so I have to deal with it.

The clutter on the desktop annoys me into cleaning it up, but I'll ignore a downloads folder once I've grabbed whatever I just downloaded.

I use downloads instead, it mainly functions as a temporary folder where anything unimportant can live and once it gets a scroll bar it all gets deleted. For the very rare things that are important I could then move them after.

I would expect nothing less from a filthy outlook user

The cursed Linux alternative of this is usually putting things directly in the home folder – I used to do this until I got better. Desktop is simple to keep clean when you don't have one in your "desktop environment" by default.

Some people who've used MacOs before OSX dump everything to the root filesystem out of habit. It works just as poorly as a file management strategy as one might expect, albeit better than putting everything on the desktop. Not sure how often that happens but I've known multiple people to do that.

This is a word document. Where should you save a word document?

In the documents folder. The documents folder.

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

no... No please...

What about this picture file? Where would you save a picture file?

In the pictures folder. Cmon...

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

oh god why....

I just downloaded this file... Where should I save it?

The... The downloads folder?

That's right! You save it to the desktop!

: '-(

For those that don't know... This is a reference to this video. https://youtu.be/cUbIkNUFs-4

People who save files on the desktop deserve to use Windows.

I love GNOME for this. No desktop icons. Windows/super key, type the first letter or two, boom. It's so pretty.

My phone on the other hand? The first screen is nicely arranged. The second screen is just a chronological list of the apps I've downloaded, because they automatically go to desktop, and they'll clutter up my home screen if I don't have a separate sacrificial screen for them

People who use desktop as your unsorted downloads folder, who hurt you?

These days, replace "Documents" and "Downloads" with "the root folder of OneDrive".

This is some Window level joke. BTW, I put my configs in home directory.

I think she means OneDrive.

Its a black hole. You just drop files in there and never open them again.

I used the desktop all the time when I was on Windows. When I moved to Linux fulltime, KDE wouldn't let you save to desktop. Eventually I figured out how to fix that, but by that time I had the habit broken. Thankfully i never reverted and my shit is generally organized because of it.

On Android it's similar... On some apps(all?) you can't save to the downloads folder. Like WTF? Downloads is where temp stuff goes you damn green buffoon!

Id just like to add that whoever started sending game files to the hidden part of documents should be shot. How hard is it to just make a Games folder and a Games Save folder?

Story time.

I was helping someone at work the other day....

As part of my usual process, I minimized most of what the person was using, because I dgaf what users are actually doing on their computers. I'm only interested in getting the "problem" that they're complaining about, solved, so I can go home.

When I finished minimizing everything, I shit you not, this person had two full screens of icons on their desktop. I couldn't help but blurt out "that's a lot of icons" they went on to describe how they use their desktop as a dumping ground and they clear the whole thing every few months.

Since I couldn't give a single shit about what they do with their computer, I said something to the effect of "alright", fixed the unrelated "problem" they had and moved on.

The top of your desk is exactly where you want the document that you will need in a minute to go. Its what bosses demanded since before modern computing

If that is not the intended usecase, then what is?

In linux i am saving stuff in a related project folder which may aswell be that projects own desktop.