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Desktop Appreciation

Desktop Appreciation

I've always loved computers and just messing around with them. From my Amiga workbench icons, through Windows and Linux, I've always enjoyed ricing my desktop, everything from building stats widgets, foobar skins to stripping out crap I don't use from my OS.

Massive thanks to Vaxry for creating Hyprland and reigniting my long-time love for tinkering with my desktop.

I've now spent over a year on Linux (my longest run in a while) and because I no longer need Adobe I will never switch back. I spent a few months on KDE then found the tiling based window manager Hyprland. I fell in love (it kinda reminded me of Blackbox) and at the same time started using AI a lot for work. This opened up a whole world of bash scripting and really customising my desktop

  • Theme switcher, including the websites I use regularly
  • Wallpaper selector
  • Heavily customised Soundcloud music player
  • Shopify sales in my taskbar
  • Git commits tracker

Big boring gap of windows. wtf happened to windows ricing like Litestep??

I didn't keep any screenshots from before early 2000's unfortunately. I would love to have stuff from my early PC and even earlier Amiga days.