like for example, one time i was browsing through some neofetch screenshots and i found out that a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux. hmm or maybe they even have proprietary videogame images!! i used to think that was bad but now i realize that even if you have proprietary stuff as images like, furry fanart of some proprietary videogame, it’s like just a picture, a jpeg. but still, younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files, but i still enjoy linux. what do you think?? please
Most people are not obsessed monomaniacs with room for only one interest in their lives. That means that most Linux users are interested in things other than free software, so many will choose to “dress up” their computers in ways that showcase their other interests, and may use material that is not under copyleft licenses to do so. If this causes you anxiety or confusion, you may want to speak to a mental health professional. Seriously.
On a scale from 1 to 10, how autistic would you say you are? Because caring about proprietary motives on the wallpaper of other people sounds a little divergent to me.
Autism has little to do with it - I’m on the spectrum and I have “proprietary” Star Trek wallpapers on all my Linux machines - Ent D and DS9 on desktop, DS9 crew on laptop, Cerritos on that one old Chromebook I installed Bcachefs Debian Testing on for fun once, Borg cube on my Surface…
Now my wallpaper choices and overall Star Trek fandom… you could probably make a reasonable guess on where that comes from. 😉
What you use as a wallpaper is personal choice. Maybe you like anime. Maybe you are a fan of a game franchise. It’s personal choice, so it shouldn’t matter to anyone else what you have on your wallpaper.
Shouldn’t you be allowed to wear Adidas shoes, since you run Linux on your PC?
If you aren’t compiling your own shoes you are legally forbidden to use Linux.
Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Man, if you’re freaking out over “”“proprietary wallpapers”“” just wait until you see how many MacOS clones there are in r/unixporn lmao, chill.
We really need a Linux circlejerk community for this type of thing.
This is the most unhinged shit I ever read
I think people can use what they want as their wallpaper
I think they might be using linux for something else other than taking screenshots and being fanboys
What do I think? I think it’s normal to have wallpapers that aren’t related to the kernel of you OS and I’m struggling to make sense of how people setting their wallpaper to something they like could possibly be a problem.
TIL there’s people thinking about stuff like this. Honestly a wallpaper is just some image that you chose to make your desktop nice to look at to me. I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.
Every time I work with a Mac, Hackintosh, etcetera, the 5K upscale of XP Bliss is my default as a joke (except I think near the end of one school year, where I set the background to something from OS 9).
It was even my iPhone background for a while, though right now, it’s a random James Webb image.
I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.
Well now I suddenly care.
Why the hell do you want to watch the world burn?
;)
Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn’t until a few months ago.
If I remember correctly I got them from this collection on archive.org and honestly they are just really nice quality pictures. But probably also a bit of nostalgia. 😄
I’ve been a linux user for 25 years.
My computers are all named after Autobots and my wallpaper on each computer is a picture of that computer’s namesake from one of the various continuities.
That’s just how I roll out.
'till all are one. o7
I don’t think that purity testing people is an attractive method of talking about free software? We should meet people where they are, and besides, if games are good, they’re good. Doom started out as proprietary software and got GPL’d. It’s also cool to think that reverse engineering software, like in the case of OpenMorrowwind, is a thing. Besides, I pirate proprietary software all the time with cracked DRM. The harm is in the restriction of user freedom, not necessarily in the existence of the laws if you view the laws as fake and don’t adhere to them. Let’s talk about cracking DRM and decompiling these games. Let’s talk about modding them. Let’s talk about making servers and playing them online together.
If you’re a furry Linux user, you’re only allowed to use desktop backgrounds of Xenia. :P
Assuming you’re serious and I’m not being whoosed, remember that Linux is a tool, not a cause. Many use Linux because they like Linux, not because they want to purge all non-free things from their life.
raises trans, linux-using paw ^.^
Thanks for bringing this to my attention :3
When you say ‘younger me’ do you mean like four year old you, because eight year old current you doesn’t make sense? I have no idea what the whole point of this post is, other than it must be some chatgpt output someone thought would be funny to throw out.
Sadly, I think this is a much older, non-AI person who thinks that they’re funny.
i’m 21 years old, so sorry, and i don’t use chatgpt
younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files
That’s good for starters. What do you mean by “younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files”? Exactly what proprietary files are you talking about? Background pics are usually jpeg, or png, and those are not proprietary to linux, so I think that’s part of what has everyone confused about this. Are you also insinuating that people can only use certain backgrounds based on either belief or their own actual background? I am curious to hear your explanation if you aren’t a llm. And by the way, saying you don’t use chatgpt is exactly what I would expect chatgpt to reply with. LOL. I keed I keed.
by proprietary files i mean stuff like msi files or, psd or illustrator files (which gimp and inkscape can open with ease), and also if richard stallman was here i think he would say something like having images of proprietary software would be like endorsing them, like what if you had images of fascist dictators?? that would be his way of seeing things,i think so
Gotcha. Well, I guess being an old guy and having never correlated someone’s computer background to any kind of meaning other than they like that particular background, I guess I don’t see anything into it. But hey, I work with a bunch of terminals all day long so there’s not an opportunity to customize things there, and the one work machine that has a gui, I have just left the background as the default. That is a rule of mine, nothing personal on the work laptop.
