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what do you think of people who use linux but use non-linux related stuff as their wallpaper?? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 day ago by adrihii@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 38 minutes ago

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

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Lemmchen 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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. 😉

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 45 minutes ago

Good choice for the Microsoft Surface - The BORG. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] stationary_melon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

If you aren't compiling your own shoes you are legally forbidden to use Linux.

Sorry, I don't make the rules.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 39 points 22 hours ago

We really need a Linux circlejerk community for this type of thing.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 22 hours ago

This is the most unhinged shit I ever read

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 day ago

I think people can use what they want as their wallpaper

[–] akkajdh999@programming.dev 16 points 21 hours ago

I think they might be using linux for something else other than taking screenshots and being fanboys

[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[–] Karmmah@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours 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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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?

;)

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 25 minutes ago

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."

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn't until a few months ago.

[–] Karmmah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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. 😄

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 4 points 23 hours ago

'till all are one. o7

[–] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 6 points 21 hours ago

raises trans, linux-using paw ^.^

Thanks for bringing this to my attention :3

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Sadly, I think this is a much older, non-AI person who thinks that they're funny.

[–] adrihii@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i'm 21 years old, so sorry,, and i don't use chatgpt

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files

That's good for starters. What do you mean by "younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files"? Exactly what proprietary files are you talking about? Background pics are usually jpeg, or png, and those are not proprietary to linux, so I think that's part of what has everyone confused about this. Are you also insinuating that people can only use certain backgrounds based on either belief or their own actual background? I am curious to hear your explanation if you aren't a llm. And by the way, saying you don't use chatgpt is exactly what I would expect chatgpt to reply with. LOL. I keed I keed.

[–] adrihii@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

by proprietary files i mean stuff like msi files or,, psd or illustrator files (which gimp and inkscape can open with ease),, and also if richard stallman was here i think he would say something like having images of proprietary software would be like endorsing them,, like what if you had images of fascist dictators?? that would be his way of seeing things,i think so

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Gotcha. Well, I guess being an old guy and having never correlated someone's computer background to any kind of meaning other than they like that particular background, I guess I don't see anything into it. But hey, I work with a bunch of terminals all day long so there's not an opportunity to customize things there, and the one work machine that has a gui, I have just left the background as the default. That is a rule of mine, nothing personal on the work laptop.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 9 points 22 hours ago

WTF?

[–] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

A wild gunnerkrig fan!

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] adrihii@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

You guys use wallpapers?

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 7 points 23 hours ago

Who cares?

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I bought my current wallpaper from an artist on fedi.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minding wallpapers if they're not questionable or illegally obtained sounds like a symptom of a disorder to me. That's my answer.

[–] adrihii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago

ok thanks but i was very obsessed with gnu

[–] halm@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] python@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

instant execution

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