My Desktop. - Page 8

64705 · 06-18-2009, 10:14 PM

I bought mine at the pants store.

Gazz · 09-27-2009, 09:06 PM

Hereś my new kde desktop (Mandriva Linux 2010 beta)

Richard_Rahl · 09-28-2009, 04:52 AM

Gazz, could you please make sure you are using thumbnails for your pics, or else resize them? Your post is ruining this page :S

Anyway here is my refreshed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop (the third pic shows the music programme "Rythmbox"):

Linux/BSD users that are having Gnome desktops can download that theme here: Grey and Green GNOME-Look.org
But I hope you (i.e. Gnome users) are not too critical in this case, because it is actually the first theme that I publish. And sorry for the rather unpractical installation procedure.

tomdragon · 10-17-2009, 10:55 AM

aww i see a hott girl

Gazz · 11-17-2009, 02:34 PM

Mandriva 2010

Richard_Rahl · 11-17-2009, 06:22 PM

Jeez, what a small panel. I use KDE 4 in openSUSE (I will soon upgrade it to 11.2), and there it is bigger. Looks better and increases the usability, like it is doing on a Gnome desktop as well.

Here is a pic of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, though I changed the theme so the colour (brown) of the workspace switcher is not like I have it now. But I was too lazy to make a new pic just because of that (the rest looks the same when no windows are shown).

P.S.: that edge along the upper panel only appears when Compiz is enabled. So it is not fully representative for how it currently looks like. But as I said before, I am too lazy to make a new pic.

Gazz · 11-17-2009, 07:28 PM

I decreased the size of the panel myself, it's bigger on standard. I can almost blindly find things on my panel, and don't need the symbols to be as big as they come.

Anyway, it's custom. Not standard.

Edit: almost forgot, your desktop looks awesome and steril as ever. How's the new Ubuntu working for you these days?

Richard_Rahl · 11-17-2009, 09:43 PM

Fine, though there were some issues a short time after upgrading. So I decided to do a fresh install of it and I don't need to complain anymore. Others have had less luck, but I think Canonical should have made it more clear that they did it Fedora-style this time. As much changes as possible under the bonnet (GRUB v1.97beta4 instead of v0.97, for example) in this "testing release", in order to get as much as possible already implemented and well-working when the spring edition of version 10 will be released (10.04, Lucid Lynx). That will be an LTS edition, so things should be high quality and solid as a rock in that case. Though there will be a major change yet, and that is Gnome 3. A new edition of the Gnome desktop in an LTS is quite a risk, but I understand the underlying strategic reasons, because it (Lucid Lynx) will be supported until 2013 and in that case the desktops age (v2.x versus v3.x) becomes dangerously relevant. Ubuntu is not supposed to be like like Debian Stable: as solid as Ayer's Rock but not sufficiently up-to-date.

RaiZen18 · 11-18-2009, 06:05 AM

Well here is my Windows 7 Ultimate desktop, (my wallpaper changes) I must say win 7 is a great sucess. It runs better than XP or vista, and handles overclocking better! Don't think I will be going back anytime soon.

Richard_Rahl · 11-18-2009, 06:51 AM

It is the same old trick Raizen. Things appear earlier, but in the background it is still busy. Like the desktop showing up earlier: the time it takes for the HDD to not be @load anymore still takes quite a while. I hope you wait until it is really finished booting, because opening files "too early" increases the chance of corrupting them. Games don't show higher framerates, and the only real optimisations are lying in multitasking and machines being low on RAM (i.e. <2 GB, like in case of netbooks). According to the Dutch Magazine Hardware.info, the speed differences (I mean the real differences, not the fake ones) dissapear as snow in a spring sun, once you got above 2 GB of RAM.
It's simply Vista sp3, only way overpriced. As long as my apps run fine on XP sp2, Ubuntu and were necessary openSUSE, Microsoft can keep it's crap. I am actually at a point at which I am considering to remove Windows Vista from my laptop. It requires a huge load of maintenance (system updates, Antivirus, cleaning tools, browsers,...) to keep it up to date and running as good as possible. But meanwhile the same machine only runs openSUSE and Ubuntu in practice.