How Clean is your Desktop?

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Hammed Oyedele Sep 30, 2019 ・1 min read

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How clean is your Desktop guys???

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Discussion

Peter Kim Frank • Sep 30 '19

Peter Frank

@peterkimfrank

Every few months, I drag everything from my Desktop into a folder called "Unused". I literally never need anything from that folder, but I'm afraid to delete the files. It's 95% one-time-use screenshots.

The folder is now over 5GB 😨

20:25 PM - 02 May 2018

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Zohar Peled • Oct 3 '19

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.

Hammed Oyedele • Oct 1 '19

Interesting 🤣🤣🤣

Ben Calder • Sep 30 '19

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

Molly Struve (she/her) • Oct 1 '19

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

Vicente G. Reyes • Oct 1 '19

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

Michel Renaud • Oct 1 '19

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!

Vicente G. Reyes • Oct 1 '19

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

Michel Renaud • Oct 1 '19

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

Vicente G. Reyes • Oct 1 '19

Time to upgrade, man!

Michel Renaud • Oct 1 '19

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.

Hammed Oyedele • Oct 1 '19

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

Vicente G. Reyes • Oct 1 '19

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

Angel D. Munoz • Sep 30 '19

Physical desktop is a mess... but that being said I've been always a mess with desktops
OS Desktop

Ha Tuan Em • Oct 1 '19

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

Angel D. Munoz • Oct 1 '19

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

Ha Tuan Em • Oct 2 '19

I got it. Thanks you so much !

Zohar Peled • Oct 3 '19

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.

Hammed Oyedele • Oct 3 '19

Share it please!

Zohar Peled • Oct 3 '19

"Mine" is also there...

Thomas H Jones II • Sep 30 '19

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.