DEV Community

Cover image for How Clean is your Desktop?
Hammed Oyedele
Hammed Oyedele

Posted on

How Clean is your Desktop?

Unleash your Potential!!!

How clean is your Desktop guys???

ShowYourDesktop

Top comments (28)

Collapse
 
peter profile image
Peter Kim Frank
Collapse
 
peledzohar profile image
Zohar Peled

Within one hour since you finally go and delete the content of that folder - you'll realize it contains some super important file and you've just permanently delete it. When that happens, don't blame yourself, it's Murphy.

Collapse
 
devhammed profile image
Hammed Oyedele

Interesting 🤣🤣🤣

Collapse
 
blindfish3 profile image
Ben Calder

Not going to include pics (too much hassle) but:

  • physical desktop (work): spotless + occasional evidence of a coffee cup
  • OS desktop (work): a little cluttered with icons (but I never see it)
  • physical desktop (home): a total mess
  • OS desktop (home): no icons whatsoever
Collapse
 
molly profile image
Molly Struve (she/her)

Ever since I setup a ScreenShots folder in my home directoy it has gotten A LOT cleaner!

Desktop with yellow/purple background that says in white text, I didnt come this far only to come this far

Collapse
 
highcenburg profile image
Vicente G. Reyes

Here's mine. I delete unnecessary files at the end of every day 😄

Collapse
 
metalmikester profile image
Michel Renaud

At home I have even less than that since I reinstalled macOS from scratch a few days ago. Didn't have much before, mind you, but I think I have four icons on it now.

But I really came here to say that I love that background!

Collapse
 
highcenburg profile image
Vicente G. Reyes

I have 4 backgrounds, and they're all 4K 😄

Thread Thread
 
metalmikester profile image
Michel Renaud

No 4K here (well, at home). Mid-2011 27" iMac with two Thunderbolt displays.

Thread Thread
 
highcenburg profile image
Vicente G. Reyes

Time to upgrade, man!

Thread Thread
 
metalmikester profile image
Michel Renaud

Nope. The machine still works very well for what I do (and then some). I bought the max available processor speed and graphics card and later put 32 Gb in it, so I'm running macOS and Windows (Parallels) side by side with no performance issue whatsoever. I don't need 4K for what I do.

Collapse
 
devhammed profile image
Hammed Oyedele

Honestly, most of the files on your desktop can be placed in a better folder.

Collapse
 
highcenburg profile image
Vicente G. Reyes

I just need them to be there to remind me that I'm a freelancer hahaha

Collapse
 
tunaxor profile image
Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez
  • Physical desktop is a mess... but that being said I've been always a mess with desktops
  • OS Desktop clean as it should be
Collapse
 
hte305 profile image
Ha Tuan Em

Greate ! I Love this quote. Can you share this wallpaper?

Collapse
 
tunaxor profile image
Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez • Edited

I got it from wallpaperhub.app/ there are a lot of goodies there too but seems to be down at the moment I'll try to come later with the full link to the one above

Edit:
Site is up and running :)

wallpaperhub.app/wallpapers/4655

Thread Thread
 
hte305 profile image
Ha Tuan Em

I got it. Thanks you so much !

Collapse
 
peledzohar profile image
Zohar Peled

Not so clean, I guess...
This wall paper is a photo of a deep space region made by the Hubble telescope. Every dot of light on that image is an entire galaxy.
Every time I get too stressed or pissed off I like to look at it. It reminds me that whatever is bugging me at the moment is tiny and insignificant.

my desktop

Collapse
 
devhammed profile image
Hammed Oyedele

Share it please!

Collapse
 
peledzohar profile image
Zohar Peled
Collapse
 
ferricoxide profile image
Thomas H Jones II • Edited

I have no desk at home so... "N/A"

I choose the Window-managers I do because of ability to hide things away in "drawers" (similar for my cellphone)

At the office, I was told, "you need to put stuff in your cubicle so that people know that it hasn't been abandoned and can be reallocated (especially since, when I am at this office, it's from before 0600 to before 1400). So, I added a Funko Pinhead, a faux-marble skull and a stuffed bat. Otherwise, still pretty spartan.

Work desktop only has the icons on it that are forced there by our desktop administrators. Everything else is tucked away. Even my toolbar is set to auto-hide.

Collapse
 
fultonbrowne profile image
Fulton Browne

not very clean at all
Alt text of image

Collapse
 
metalmikester profile image
Michel Renaud

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Collapse
 
devhammed profile image
Hammed Oyedele

It is more than clean 😂😂😂

Collapse
 
coolshaurya profile image
Shaurya

Clean and nice.

my manjaro desktop with cinnamon

Collapse
 
pavanjadhaw profile image
Pavan Jadhaw

Really clean I would say,
github.com/pavanjadhaw/dotfiles

Collapse
 
biros profile image
Boris Jamot ✊ /

I've got a tiled window manager (I3), so no desktop for me 😕

Collapse
 
pavanjadhaw profile image
Pavan Jadhaw