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paskalivichi 113 points 3 years ago

Ok, someone please explain to me why default wallpapers are a story in any way?? And everytime a new version of a desktop comes out, I'm baffled to see that theres an actual discussion and debate about...default wallpapers??? Like in the same sense that people talk about ACTUAL desktop features...

You guys don't change your wallpaper??... Who in the flying fuck cares about the goddamn default wallpaper?!?!?!?

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boonhet 23 points 3 years ago

I actually don't change mine if the default is nice. Or I keep it for a while till I replace it. Still baffles me that people think they warrant much discussion unless Gnome decides to ship a wallpaper with literal gnomes fucking or something.

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digdug 24 points 3 years ago

"Why do you have a wallpaper with gnomes having sex?"
"Meh, it's the default, I can't be bothered to change it."

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boonhet 5 points 3 years ago

I'd definitely keep it on a personal machine just to get people to ask tbh

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Aman9das 13 points 3 years ago

The GNOME wallpapers often have inner meaning, the stripe one denotes world temperature over the years getting warmer

This one denotes Forest Fires

Jacub Steiner is pretty creative

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dukk 5 points 3 years ago

That’s actually…pretty well done, I saw that wallpaper and my first thought was forest fires.

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BCsven 8 points 3 years ago

A clean wallpaper is the first onboarding experience for a user. Some distros have horrible wallpapers. other than that wallpaper doesn't matter. personally I did a lot of late night computer work so wanted a redish background. I found this image, did a deep search but coyld not find original artist/photographer.

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flashgnash 6 points 3 years ago

Can confirm, I never thought I cared about wallpaper or that it made much difference but it turns out it was a big part of why I like elementOS/pantheon so much and after switching gnome's wallpaper to a similar one I realised I liked it more

Sounds dumb but it really has a subconscious effect on how much you like the DE as a whole

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BCsven 1 point 3 years ago

Totally. We are driven to look for beauty, form, symmetry in nature, and assymetry for interest. IMO a bad wallpaper could turnoff a potential new user if it has that janky feel. Zorin and Elementary seem very polished because they took the time to start with clean wallpaper and polish the UI. And I realize Ubuntu is a good distro but can you imagine recommending it to a C level exec and their first look is a faceted pather looking thing that seems like 90s tron vector graphics. Similarily Pop!_OS is great but some dude is going to see a minimal colour posterized robot scene and think is this on OS for kids? Don't get me wrong I love posterized art, but not everyone does.

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bamboobam 5 points 3 years ago

They are learning from MacOS.

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Orange 4 points 3 years ago

Agreed. Came into the comments to find out why this was worthwhile of a post and I still don't understand.

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ipsirc 3 points 3 years ago

The Kali users.

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RickyRigatoni 3 points 3 years ago

They will never attain the perfection of Bliss, anyways.

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RandallFlagg 2 points 3 years ago

The first thing I do whenever I install any new OS is change the wallpaper, I dgaf about the default one lol

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RassilonianLegate 1 point 3 years ago

@RandallFlagg
@paskalivichi
Same here, I haven't used a default wallpaper for more than a few minutes since the xp days

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conorab 2 points 3 years ago

For me, the default wallpaper throws me back to the period it was made and reminds me of what it was like to use that version. This GNOME one feels a little generic and I swear I’ve seen it before. Feels like the right style to use in a dynamic wallpaper where colours randomly shift.

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angrymouse 1 point 3 years ago

Im using endevourOS for about 6 months, before i used manjaro for 12 months, all without changing the default wallpaper

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s20 25 points 3 years ago

I... don't care. I'm going to switch to my own wallpaper at first opportunity, and whichever distro is probably going to replace the default anyway.

It's so weird to me when stuff like this makes headlines.

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1984 19 points 3 years ago

It's not great.

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Leviathan 18 points 3 years ago

With the triangles, it looks a lot like Plasma's recent wallpapers

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Sir_Simon_Spamalot 8 points 3 years ago

More like Plasma's old wallpapers...

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TimeSquirrel 1 point 3 years ago

The mountain wallpaper?

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Kaped 13 points 3 years ago

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FrankTheHealer 2 points 3 years ago

I disagree. I think its nice. Professional and colorful

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harl3k1n 13 points 3 years ago

Personally I like gnome a lot as desktop environment. But Gnomes default wallpapers, not so much. Good thing you can change em easily.

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neutrino 4 points 3 years ago

Indeed. I dislike any kind of wallpaper except for just a single color:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri none
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri-dark none
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color '#201b30'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background color-shading-type 'solid'

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cianmor 2 points 3 years ago

why not completely black?

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Nanabaz2 4 points 3 years ago

Not universally great with any bright light for me.

Also. Black smeared on OLED (I use ASUS laptop) when moving windows - universal issue. And non-consistent black on LCD due to light bleed. So I haven't prefer black black for a long time. But that's me. Not sure about him though

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Simplesyrup 3 points 3 years ago

had Ubuntu for about 3 months now had has kept the same default wallpaper, I think it looks dope af

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QuazarOmega 11 points 3 years ago

I like it, though it feels like a slightly different spin on 43's wallpapers adwaita wallpaper

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aleph 1 point 3 years ago

I like 43's but not these new ones. The colors are weird, plus there's that patch on the left that looks like someone has taken a cigarette lighter to it.

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wuddupdude 10 points 3 years ago

What is this, Ubuntu?

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hummel 9 points 3 years ago

OMG! A wallpaper!

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simple 7 points 3 years ago

Not the biggest fan, but I can just change it later.

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vikingtons 1 point 3 years ago

The dark mode version looks a bit more balanced iirc

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mtchristo 6 points 3 years ago

Very depressing.

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uriel238 5 points 3 years ago

I actually like minimalist wallpapers. Drawings and photos will bother me over time as I start noticing odd details. So in this case, I would not feel the need to change it right away. But I do like variety, so I'd have to build a library of fifty minimalist wallpapers or so.

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Deceptichum 5 points 3 years ago

This looks very 2009?

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TimeSquirrel 3 points 3 years ago

Wow, I haven't used Gnome in a long time...looks kinda sparse. Like those old school minimalist WMs such as Fluxbox.

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jonjennings 2 points 3 years ago

I've never understood why there's a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it's the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/..., followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/...) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you've played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

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conorab 1 point 3 years ago

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GustavoM 1 point 3 years ago

Minecraft 2 confirmed

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