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A background for 1 billion - 1 The first thing I do in Windows is replace the background image with a solid black
by discordance 7y ago
A background for 1 billion - 1
The first thing I do in Windows is replace the background image with a solid black
- Thorentis 7y agoWow thought I was one of the few that did this. I much prefer a solid black ground since you can see all the icons and writing under them clearly. Also makes the screen darker and so softer on the eyes.
- frank2 7y agoMy Windows 10 desktop is solid black, too. In contrast my Mac's desktop is solid white (and almost always empty).
- firethief 7y agoI do that too. On a new phone one of my first steps is to put my hand over the camera and take a picture--oddly enough, that seems to be the easiest way to get some black.
- onep1x3l 7y agoI just create a 1x1 pixel png, black, of course, and it does the job.
- Lucent 7y agoScrolling down on web pages in the 90s made of tiny repeating textures and watching the renderer struggle to keep up with painting has instilled a deep fear of using extremely small images in tiling. What an icky feeling to find out your desktop may have some off-the-charts polygon count for its plain black background.
- Kwpolska 7y agoI would expect the OS to just scale the image to screen size once when it boots (or whatever) and cache that image.
- colejohnson66 7y agoThe neighboring comment is dead, but that is basically what Windows does IIRC. When you set it, it prerenders the image at the screen resolution and caches it.
- paggle 7y agoI set each of my machines and VMs to a different (dark) background color so I know what machine I’m in.
- Gracana 7y agoI use the Windows 95 desktop color because it reminds me of a time when I liked computers.
- Answerawake 7y agoI'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way.
- zozbot234 7y agoWindows 2000 (and Server 2003) changed from the 95/98 dark cyan to a shade of azure/sky blue. That's another choice that might be quite popular.
- deith 7y agoIt's actually called "teal" in X11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Color_name_chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Color_name_cha... — It's also available on Windows 10 by default where it's called "Seafoam Teal"
- nojvek 7y agoI loved the XP logo with the tree on a green grass field and blue sky. Had a very human/happy feel to it. Windows 10 bg is kinda depressing on a rainy gloomy day. Seattle is like that for almost half the year.