With the introduction of Gnome Shell in 2011, the Gnome developers decided desktop icons were tacky and got rid of them. There are some extensions to bring them back, but the Gnome developers are just and righteous in their arbitrary design tyranny.

Can you tell that I am extremely annoying about recommending people Disco Elysium?

Awful lot of Windows in this thread. Let me contribute. Yes, there are no icons because I didn't bother configuring it to display those, and I think it looks prettier that way.

shrunk it a bit since 4k

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The desktop of my main ThinkPad. The wifi information is redacted.

Arch Linux w/ sway, swaybg, and waybar. Gruvbox lagtrain as background, with a gruvbox theme applied to everything.

CW: MacOS

I prefer to just toggle into launchpad or use the taskbar usually since I've organized it well enough don't visit my desktop often since I usually fullscreen my browser/code editor

so like, you just live like that then?

2 years and 50+ different distributions have culminated in a Bazzite Ublue install that I am neither over excited nor overly annoyed about. I will never go back to GNOME though.

Blurred out private notes (mostly just appointments, todo lists, doctor names/numbers, etc.)

Debian on gnome. no cleaning as requested

Yeah, I live like that. I never just leave it sitting with a bare desktop so I never change my background image these days.

I like a tidy desktop.

Arch Linux w/ GNOME 45

Nobara OS. Already clean

The taskbar is usually hidden too so it's literally just an animated wallpaper

Is this a desktop?

I switch my desktop wallpaper every couple of months/weeks.

I catalogue what shows I watch and what games I play etc.

Windows

Discord in application form

Nice try FBI

Not today, Langley

Nobara 39 with KDE Plasma :)

I have a ton of wallpapers rotating every 2 hours, so I'll chain comment with a few more screenshots, because I absolutely love some of the wallpapers I have and I want you comrades to see. I only took screenshots of drawn wallpapers, but I do have some nice brutalist ones and a lot of space and Arcane ones too.

The game icon is so that Mrs. ButtBidet can find her game without messing around with Steam and Linux.

Pool of Radiance

Eye of the Beholder

Damn, those are some old ass games.

Redacted all the information that could be used to harm me on this website.

balls

I have a rotating batch of desktop. I also like haven't added any desktop shortcuts in years. Also did hide my real name that appears on some apps.