So, Windows, Mac or Linux/other for you? A combination thereof? All three?
For me at the moment it's Linux and Windows, though Windows is less and less significant in my daily life. I suspect one day soon it will be but a memory for me. I have only Ubuntu on the MacBook I'm presently using.
I like to keep it simple. (And I like memes.) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi141.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr60%2Fmr740ti%2Fth_Screenshotfrom2014-01-01151144.png&hash=203296e5e0105b482a316ef7a5eebc7614480081) (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/mr740ti/Screenshotfrom2014-01-01151144.png~original)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi141.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr60%2Fmr740ti%2Fth_Screenshotfrom2014-01-01151249.png&hash=79f2f81ba7a0d7a23d5ebee0a0787c9f92e43438) (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/mr740ti/Screenshotfrom2014-01-01151249.png~original)
For those curious, Ubuntu has a launcher, similar to the Mac OS X Dock, on the left hand side. I have mine set on auto-hide and only to appear when the cursor is moved to the top left corner.
Wallpaper - http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2482/gamut.html (http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2482/gamut.html)
GTK/Unity theme - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/reNIX+%28for+Unity+and+GS%29?content=153312 (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/reNIX+%28for+Unity+and+GS%29?content=153312)
Icons - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Faenza?content=128143 (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Faenza?content=128143)
Mac 10.6.8
Background is artwork of "Darksteel Relic" from Magic: the Gathering
Screensaver is FadeText
iTunes has 1618 songs, 3.5 days, 9.74 GB
I have Finale (music composition program) and Minecraft.
Sorry, no pictures.
I just upgraded to Fedora 20.
I don't own a computer.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 01, 2014, 06:20:53 PM
I don't own a computer.
How are you able to post here so often?
You can't be using someone else's. You like the forum way, way too much.
Tapatalk wasn't around the whole time.
iPads came later than this forum started, too.
Sarcasm is hard.
Linux Mint
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Quote from: 1 on January 01, 2014, 04:51:23 PM
iTunes has 1618 songs, 3.5 days, 9.74 GB
This made me go look, because I knew it was a lot, but...
117,567 songs, 689.9 GB. No idea how many days but I'm guessing a ton
Windows 7 Enterprise N on the main desktop (Intel Core 2 Quad).
Apple OS X 10.9 on the MacBook Air 11".
Apple iOS 7 on the iPad "3".
Android 4.x on the HP TouchPad and the Galaxy SIII.
Been messing about with a few Linux distros to throw onto the wife's old Lenovo S10-2 netbook, since I replaced it for her. Didn't care for MeeGo or JoliOS, trying Mint 16 now.
I run Mint 14 XFCE on the netbook, it is a fantastic lightweight distro.
Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center. I have had no problems with Windows 8 since release or the upgrade.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1300.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag88%2FZeffyboy%2Fsys-os_zps87bfa012.png&hash=e3a74091cacbb17fc5cc8eea349ca05ecc2a47c0)
For my phone, iOS 7 on my iPhone 5c. Once again, no problems with it either.
Windows 7 on my desktop. My wife's laptop runs Vista. Her old desktop runs XP, but we hardly ever turn on that machine anymore....I should boot it up, retrieve any substantive files (I'm sure we already did that, but duplicates never hurt), and then stick it in our storage unit.
Wallpaper on my desktop is this picture I took one March when the full moon looked particularly large:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi31.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc378%2F1995hoo%2F2602139b.jpg&hash=3290d2ea788cbfd2fe1bdd509b3749aed5439757)
Linux Mint, heavily customized:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnysroads.com%2Ffiles%2Faaroads%2FDesktop.png&hash=c5a131b5f0fa9914f1119b390e77302593d27c01)
I've set the window borders, menu rollovers, progress bars etc. to be the same color as Sailor Moon's boots and the mouseover text to be the same blue as the bottom of her skirt. My desktop has a similar color scheme based off of Sailor Mars (Red and Purple, based on the skirt and bows in her case). Yeah, I'm nuts.
My primary laptop runs Windows 7. It's due for replacement later this year (4th birthday in October), which will mean having to bite the bullet and take on Windows 8.
I have a second laptop which I use as a backup/travel computer. It's dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I attempted to be one of the cool nerds and play with Linux but then found that it's ten times as much of a glitchy pile of shit as Windows is and gave up. When trying to run a basic, simple program produces errors you can't figure out how to fix, and you can't find any useful help by googling it either...
Maybe I somehow got a bum install and would have a different experience on a different machine. And maybe I need to spend some time learning about how Linux works first rather than trying to operate it cold.
But regardless, I don't really have the patience to deal with a system that requires loads of unobvious and unintuitive tinkering to get each freaking program to work.
My main PC is a Lenovo y580 w/ Linux Mint 15:
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I also have a pair of netbooks that run openSUSE.
For mobile stuff, I have a Nexus 5 (Android 4.4.2), a 2013 Nexus 7 (Android 4.4.2), a Nexus 4 (Android 4.3, running a custom ROM), and a 2012 Nexus 7 (Android 4.4).
Quote from: 1 on January 01, 2014, 06:25:03 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 01, 2014, 06:20:53 PM
I don't own a computer.
How are you able to post here so often?
You can't be using someone else's. You like the forum way, way too much.
Tapatalk wasn't around the whole time.
iPads came later than this forum started, too.
The forum's main site is completely accessable on mobile devices. On my trip to Denmark/Norway/Germany (pre-tapatalk), I didn't take along a laptop, so I posted via my iPad, old phone that gets about an hour of battery life, and samsung galaxy camera.
Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center (Preview at the moment; remind me to upgrade before the middle of the month) on a 10.1" (1280×800) tablet.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FEtdp3Lz.png&hash=ad15acc75d3df400a8546c72e7b10ec4b72ccae7)
My desktop. Background is a picture of Toronto Rocket subway train #5391-5396 sitting in Downsview station. Can't find the original source unfortunately... :/ "Chicagoland" is a folder containing pictures from the almost-completed Chicagoland trip. "trip.xls" is the plan for the trip, which didn't get followed in both directions. Damn police car... :banghead:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPXvWCjl.png&hash=79c3a982a8feb2cb437b65908890e0a3c4c7669c)
Icons on my taskbar from left to right: the Start button, Windows Explorer, Google Chrome, Sublime Text 3 (I'm a developer), Chrome App Launcher (just in case), CorelDRAW, Sticky Notes, a console emulator also because I'm a developer, Skype, a calculator for when I need to convert from inches to pixels (1" ≈ 25 mm = 25 px), and Inkscape.
I'm currently working on semi-Caltransing a gantry from SLEX (E-1). Note the BC-style distance legend, the European junction symbol in place of the word "EXIT", and that the signs are to scale 80" (top) and 70" (bottom). (Overall, I think the external tab style is better.) This is only a small part of my workspace.
Here's my actual desktop (warning: no organization and cluttered):
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1300.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag88%2FZeffyboy%2Fdesktop-jan2_zps9e23ec06.png&hash=4c8f175d6a0a3efbd9102c013c65d50e353da378)
I don't organize anything, if it appears on the desktop I generally don't care if it's there or not. My taskbar contains easy shortcuts to GIMP and PowerPoint, as well as IE, Firefox, and the Character Map.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1300.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag88%2FZeffyboy%2Fdesktop-signsfolder_zpscf979e41.png&hash=707d4d88e87139e36d1764945ca6136789146bee)
The inner workings of my 'Signs' folder, where there are over 1200 files. The basic layout was the ROUTEMARKERS folder and the FHWArrows folder; Everything else you see was added to accommodate something new (Redesign_This! contains all my Redesign This! thread signs)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FiMjTT88.jpg&hash=0dd7fbaa0a6452adea79692172272424bc96f132)
Sorry if the desktop picture looks a bit small. It's a street shot from Portland, Maine, taken in February of 2012. The highway overpass is I-295 above Congress Street. The large building with the half-moon roof is the Portland Exposition (Expo) Building on Park Avenue. The light towers near that are from Hadlock Field, the city's home for AA-level Eastern League baseball.
The browser I use most often is Mozilla Firefox. I think it's version 26. I'm not too sure. :hmmm:
P.S. Sammi? Were you hurt in that accident at all? :wow:
Quote from: KEVIN_224 on January 02, 2014, 10:54:12 PM
P.S. Sammi? Were you hurt in that accident at all? :wow:
Thank god no. The only problem was that the collision cost us our radiator, coolant was dripping so we couldn't drive the rest of the way to Toronto without overheating. Have to wait until the morning to get a rental car, so I'm spending the night in a hotel in Chelsea. DX
I thought about this picture as my desktop...then realized it's only 8 degrees F/-13 C outside. Michigan and Toronto look to be at least snow-free tonight. Not for us in Connecticut!
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FEYxYYl6.jpg&hash=6de6d70e39efc3d5b797967a3a82205904ff1a10)
Thanks for the updates on your trip at least...save for that accident.
Arch Linux with Xfce right now. Have it on both my laptop and desktop (which is 300 miles away). I like KDE a lot too though, and tend to switch between them.
Here is my laptop as of right now:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZJQ73Yk.jpg&hash=a00a1ad8c8faf828af9a002a2b34a1965103c64c) (http://imgur.com/ZJQ73Yk)
(EDIT: Cleaned up my desktop folder and retook the screenshot)
Android 4 on this device. Win7 on the laptop.
Laptop - 8.1
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ssoworld.org%2Fpics%2Fwin8desktop.png&hash=959bfecd58f10141dd4067353750a619d40783ec)
Desktop (restored after a year being down) - 7.
Then there's the iPad - iOS7.
Both my laptop and my desktop run Windows 7 Home Pro, SP 1.
I used to have a dual boot Ubuntu on both of them, but gave it up because my desktop uses a Wifi adapter that Ubuntu will not pick up, and it got too cluttered on my laptop, even with both souped up with 8GB RAM on my laptop and 4 GB on my desktop (they both came originally with 4 GB and 2 GB of RAM respectively). If I can resolve the adapter issue, I may attempt a Linux Mint or Ubuntu reinstall on my desktop.
And here's my current screenshot:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1295.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb636%2FAnthony_JKenn%2FCurrentScreenshot_zps1668df7c.jpg&hash=131aa154c502304fc2e83845b6cd0c8cb37efbdf) (http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/Anthony_JKenn/media/CurrentScreenshot_zps1668df7c.jpg.html)
How long ago was it that you gave up on Ubuntu?
I run Windows 7 on an HP Pavilion dv6, with lots of third-party stuff to make it look more like XP. "Misc Stuff" makes up for the lack of clutter on the desktop.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3668/11734901025_a167b7f044_c.jpg)
I plan on eventually building a computer and running 8.1 (possibly dual-booted with Linux), but that won't happen for a while.
This thread catches me just after my main computer's HDD crashed.
From Dec. 31 up to tonight, I was running Ubuntu off of a 4 Gb USB key -- using Linux for the first time as my primary OS since many years ago. This was my first serious encounter with Unity. I now loathe it. Gimme back my Gnome. (I used to be a KDE junkie back in the day)
I'm now back on a clean and still pretty stock Windows 7 install. I'm running the updates as we speak.
In the meantime, enjoy this old screenshot from May 2008.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc07.deviantart.net%2Ffs28%2Ff%2F2008%2F124%2Fb%2F9%2FDesktop_Screenshot_080503_by_DrFrankenstein90.png&hash=fabba6d5a205dd46ad215aa5af89b573ca6c0850)
You are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and supported until April 2013.
Mac OS 10.6.8.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi205.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fbb153%2FKEK_INC%2FPersonal%2Fdesktopscreenshot_1_zps90c07f11.png&hash=319b373e40d3aa3baaca95c3f3e6d21ed24281a7)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi205.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fbb153%2FKEK_INC%2FPersonal%2Fdesktopscreenshot_2_zpsce52ed53.png&hash=b6ad67011f66f2e9944090cad1852a7fe42f50cf)
Ooh, Ã la Windows Phone. I like it.
And you're a redditor too. :colorful:
What program did you use? (Not that I'm getting it because I already have Windows 8.)
Quote from: 1 on January 01, 2014, 06:25:03 PM
You can't be using someone else's. You like the forum way, way too much.
I use my work laptop.
I've posted from my mobile phone maybe 4 times, mostly to make sure Scott5114 wasn't wiped out by a tornado that one time.
I don't own a computer.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 09, 2014, 06:26:35 PM
I don't own a computer.
You're like the 2014 version of those "I don't even own a TV" hipsters.
Quote from: sammi on January 09, 2014, 05:49:35 PM
Ooh, Ã la Windows Phone. I like it.
And you're a redditor too. :colorful:
What program did you use? (Not that I'm getting it because I already have Windows 8.)
Rainmeter.
Skin: http://fediafedia.deviantart.com/art/Omnimo-6-0-for-Rainmeter-407643092
Bump.
"New" laptop (Dell Latitude E6510), new distro. openSUSE 13.1, KDE SC 4.11.
Clicky:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3861/14454279969_c805711513_n.jpg) (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3861/14454279969_69df73b8bd_o.png)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2910/14454480937_dd27331c21_n.jpg) (https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2910/14454480937_58623d6f65_o.png)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3910/14454229920_fc63beae88_n.jpg) (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3910/14454229920_a49a3f5dac_o.png)
Plasma theme is Air - which is included.
Wallpaper (http://"http://www.wallwuzz.com/wallpaper/10463/abstract-background-widescreen-wallpapers") Window Decorations (http://"http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Air-oxygen?content=118674")
Windows 7 (64 bit).
Here's what my desktop look like:
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2928/14624716766_b332eb46d2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ohkuM5)
Desktop (https://flic.kr/p/ohkuM5) by freebrickproductions (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Primarily OS X 10.7.5, also Windows 7 via Parallels 7 (which will need to be upgraded to Parallels 9 once I update to "Mavericks").
On my Windows 8 laptop:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.sammdot.ca%2Fdesktop-windows.png&hash=df0125d66b6c21645c377d8d533de6dd9a6f1e29)
On my Linux desktop:
Unity:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.sammdot.ca%2Fdesktop-unity.png&hash=7dab3e19211e4ad9ae5815156ef13caa7b561be6)
i3:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.sammdot.ca%2Fdesktop-i3.png&hash=d72f01b4c927520ccc5322d63482c18750411009)
Figured I'd post an update. Still running Windows 7 x64 on the same laptop, but with a recent clean install. The XP theme broke and I never bothered to fix it, so I'm using the default now. I'm still using Classic Shell with a Vista start button graphic, though. Here's the desktop, with some random stuff "temporarily" stuck there in addition to my normal folders:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FOR5BsQW.jpg&hash=441a8f5cbcc41c462b4bef589c7b6daa2ada7056)
Redstone Way (http://goo.gl/maps/66Ekh), get it?
Since my first post, though, there have been some hardware issues. The left hinge broke, which actually pried that corner of the case apart, bent the heatsink a bit, and made the fan make weird noises and eventually break. Now, with a new fan, I'm running the laptop base with the monitor removed, with an external monitor hooked up via an HDMI-to-DVI cable. I've had no problem since.
After I thoroughly messed up my system last night, I reinstalled Linux and restored stuff from backup. As a result, the IRC server was down for 3 hours, and the rest of the system for another 7 hours.
Not much has changed, but overall I like it better:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.sammdot.ca%2Fbaedd671.png&hash=b0a3faccc5fa22ba77d8c2daa0f097ae5c01214a)
I use Windows 7 x64 Professional.
I bought my computer a few years ago now, but it has held up pretty well. I also have a Windows 7 laptop which I take when I am on the road.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asphaltplanet.ca%2FON%2FOntroads%2FWin7Background.jpg&hash=0df369a6b05f9327b658a1e857df7b7cd9bf32fd)