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There are definitely environments where "weird stuff" on the screen would get attention, but that will apply even if you're running Windows - it just has to loo

There are definitely environments where "weird stuff" on the screen would get attention, but that will apply even if you're running Windows - it just has to look "hacker-like" enough. So I'm not sure disguising the desktop and the file manager will help if you still spend most of your time running shell commands. If everyone in a workplace spends all their time on corp gmail (white background) and in terminal sessions to some mainframe somewhere (let's be generous and say teal text on black in like 20pt courier), anything that doesn't match either of those appearances will stand out pretty dramatically.

MisterTea 7y ago
I'd like to know what and where these environments are where NOT using OSX or Windows would look "suspicious".
- user_50123890 7y ago
  Any non-tech firm.
goatinaboat 7y ago
I confess to stopping and asking what it was when a colleague was 3270’d into an AS/400, the font IBM used for that is gorgeous.
- tyingq 7y ago
  That font in modern formats... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
  - goatinaboat 7y ago
    That isn’t it - this one had serifs. Have an upvote anyway :-)
    - tyingq 7y ago
      Interesting, as it is definitely the classic 3270/5250 font. Your friend must of specified a very "not 3270" font for their terminal emulator. The most unixy iconic serif monospaced font I can think of would be Sun's Gallant Demi: https://images.app.goo.gl/Nx2wzRvY71DczMVdA https://images.app.goo.gl/Nx2wzRvY71DczMVdA Or more recently, the Golang monospaced fonts: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
      - kohtatsu 7y ago
        Wow that's cute. Also your link breaks the back button, this is post-redirect: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/console.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-feedback/&tbnid=0yv5K7EugE4aYM&vet=1&docid=bLBcCF6r-WeWdM&w=635&h=185&q=sun+gallant+demi&source=sh/x/im https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.furorteutoni... Direct link (no idea what the google wrapper does; the related images are completely different fonts): http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/console.jpg http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/con...
        bb010g 7y ago
        Post it's from: https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-feedback/ https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-...

MisterTea 7y ago

I'd like to know what and where these environments are where NOT using OSX or Windows would look "suspicious".

user_50123890 7y ago
Any non-tech firm.

goatinaboat 7y ago

I confess to stopping and asking what it was when a colleague was 3270’d into an AS/400, the font IBM used for that is gorgeous.

tyingq 7y ago
That font in modern formats... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
- goatinaboat 7y ago
  That isn’t it - this one had serifs. Have an upvote anyway :-)
  - tyingq 7y ago
    Interesting, as it is definitely the classic 3270/5250 font. Your friend must of specified a very "not 3270" font for their terminal emulator. The most unixy iconic serif monospaced font I can think of would be Sun's Gallant Demi: https://images.app.goo.gl/Nx2wzRvY71DczMVdA https://images.app.goo.gl/Nx2wzRvY71DczMVdA Or more recently, the Golang monospaced fonts: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
    - kohtatsu 7y ago
      Wow that's cute. Also your link breaks the back button, this is post-redirect: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/console.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-feedback/&tbnid=0yv5K7EugE4aYM&vet=1&docid=bLBcCF6r-WeWdM&w=635&h=185&q=sun+gallant+demi&source=sh/x/im https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.furorteutoni... Direct link (no idea what the google wrapper does; the related images are completely different fonts): http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/console.jpg http://www.furorteutonicus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/con...
      - bb010g 7y ago
        Post it's from: https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-feedback/ https://www.furorteutonicus.eu/2014/06/03/solaris-11-2-beta-...