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posted by n1 on Monday February 16 2015, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the pics-or-gtfo dept.

joekiser writes:

I thought it this would be fun everybody. I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screenshots and see what other SoylentNews user interfaces look like. Tiling window manager or stacking? Desktop environment or not? Are you minimalist? What operating systems are you using?

What about your phone/tablet/phablet?

I'll start: Desktop and Cellular Phone.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:47AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:47AM (#145939) Homepage

    This [imgur.com] is my desktop. With my computer name in the top right corner obviously redacted by some rudimentary image manipulation application.

    You'll notice it's pretty much minimalist, for a number of reasons: First is that, since it's Linux, it can't do anything other than browse the web (which is why no porn is stored locally), take screenshots, serve as a pocket calculator, or kill its crashed applications; as you can see from the Panel above. The lone exception on the panel (that is, a useful application), is Transmission (a bittorrent client used for illegally stealing music and movies).

    You would be able to see actual things happening (audio and video recording and editing, computer-algebra systems, 4-D CAD/CAM with fluid and heat-transfer simulation packages, Integrated Development Environments that don't look like they're stuck in the '70's, etc.) had I showed you all my Windows desktop, but I think that's a little much for this stage in our relationship.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:44AM

    by coolgopher (1157) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:44AM (#145995)

    bittorrent client used for illegally stealing music and movies

    Okay, two things:

    • Is there really a way to legally steal something? And I don't mean governments retroactively changing laws...
    • That doesn't sound like stealing (nor piracy on the high seas), but rather like copyright infringement. Let's not stoop to their level of namecalling ;)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:18AM (#146043)

      Whoosh.

      That whole post was nothing but sarcasticly repeating stereotypes.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:24AM (#146044)

      Is there really a way to legally steal something?

      Yes, if you are the government or friendly enough with the government (e.g. rich enough), you can simply make or have it made legal when *you* do it.

      We hear all the time about dictators that have stolen billions from the people. Don't think that they broke any laws to do so. When it comes to dictators, that Judge Dredd "I am the law" quote holds true.