To be frank, apart from the clock-dial pop-up menus, which I'd love to have, I don't like it much. I don't see any value in mess. My desktop, the virtual one, 90% of the time does not have a single icon on it.
(My "real" one has the Mac, speakers, a Buddha, a mic, a pen mug, and a couple of cameras for decoration.)
This is how my desktop looks right now (my own photo):
Those clouds look positively undernourished, Old Chap....
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I agree, the BumpTop is not for me.
ReplyDeleteNow, as to your desktop. I have a customer (an accountant) that has one just like that. SO neat and orderly that they have a mental diagnosis for this type of person.
Personally I like to think of myself as being cluttered but creative (grin). So I'm not going to show you my desktop nor the piles of paper on my office floor.
Ray, those are gorgeous clouds.
ReplyDeleteI think it's easier to get the desktop clear on a Mac. Windows installs a trillion icons by default.
ReplyDeleteActually if you right click on the desktop and select arrange by and scroll down to "show desktop icons", which by default is checked. Just click on it to uncheck it and the icons are gone.
ReplyDeleteDo the opposite to restore them.
I think it's easier to get the desktop clear on a Mac.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. I don't know the Mac - many years ago I started with DOS, then with Windows, because it was the usual one in my kind of scientific environment.
One reason might be, that it gives you a lot of freedom to choose from a lot of very specific hardware needed in that field.
Sometimes I buy some special hardware components from different manufacturers, put it together and make my own computer from the scratch.
Its also a special kind of fun, to feel as a real boss of the machine, which I like. Some kind of ambition to master the machine, and not to be mastered by it. Maybe I'm a control freak in a way, too.
And I don't see any reason to change the OS, since I can do all what I want using that tool. Sometimes I'm curious to try Linux, but right now I'm too lazy for such a project ...
Windows installs a trillion icons by default.
Well, thats a bit exaggerated ... I agree: A freshly installed Windows is not very reasonable for my purposes, and maybe for others, too (superfluous preinstalled software components trying to manipulate you, many defaults unreasonable for experienced users, security issues and so on), but as the very first step I change it all to fit my needs, using some additional sophisticated software in order to modularize the OS completely - I can even uninstall the Internet Explorer without any problem (MS denies that its possible, but thats marketing), and to remove some icons from the desktop is the easiest thing of all that, just mark it and push "Delete".
So, and often down to any detail, I know exactly, on which hard disk partition at what place a certain piece of software or certain data are located, in case I look for it or want to change something.
And I have only a few important icons left on the desktop (together with a picture of a beautifully smiling face), but neatly organized the starting menue, divided into groups and subgroups depending on the tasks I want to do (and all my software is organized with exactly the same structure) ...
Now, any mental diagnosis? ;-)
Basically, if you can work creatively with it and have fun, then I think its totally banana which OS it is - many discussions about that remind me on a religious war: My God is better, more loving and more powerful than yours, and if you don't believe me I'll kill you for your own best ...
P.S.: Wow, such a big posting for such a small issue ;-)