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Least cluttered Windows Desktop:

Pffff, if you don’t attach to the grid you got way more space for files.

Gotta arrange by penis

If anybody needs me, I’ll be here for the next half hour or so.

Nice. It’s girth will grow for each new file saved.

Can you sort this by penis? Internet Explorer needs to be at the tip or I won’t be able to find it.

Thank you so much for this, setting this as my wallpaper right now.

Aww, I love TWID! Thanks for the reminder, haven’t watched it in awhile

There is a folder in my (Linux) desktop called “Old Desktop”

There’s a folder inside “Old Desktop” called… “Old Desktop”.

Are you me? Haha recently I went looking through them and was appalled. Not enough to actually do anything about it though.

I have the same but with the whole home directory.

/home/user/old_home/old_home/old_home

Man, zooming in and looking at these icons was like a blast from the (not too far) past.

Where’s Bonzi Buddy?

Oh, that’s easy to clean up. Just open explorer, go to desktop, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+X, make a new folder called 2025-Jan, and then inside of that folder, Ctrl+V. Problem solved, forever.

Where was that file? Oh, My Documents/Old Desktops/2023 November/2023 April/2022 December. Of course.

I absolutely do it the other way. Nothing is on my desktop except for the trash bin. There is a shortcut to the file explorer and browser pinned to the task bar. And that’s it.

There is nothing at all on my desktop except for a text document created by my girlfriend saying that she loves me that she snuck on there when I wasn’t looking.

Bro you didn’t have to come here just to brag…

Mine used the sticky note app makes me smile every time I open my laptop.

i don’t even have icons enabled on my desktop. Now I don’t have to feel stressed about cleaning it up

Ah, a person of culture! Though I admit everything that I regularly use is pinned to the taskbar.

Taskbar is all you need. Also, the windows/meta button, then just typing (or if you’re in KDE, literally just typing) the thing I want to do and hitting enter. Fuck desktop icons.

Yeah, this is the way. Disable icons and recycle bin too.

You’re ready for GNOME.

Assuming you’re not joking: Gnome Desktop Environment.

Windows + E for file explorer as well, when you can’t be bothered with the mouse. I wish you were able to pin specific folders to the taskbar, as opposed to just general explorer. I want to save one click.

I use my keyboard as little as possible, so shortcut keys aren’t for me. I use a laptop, and am usually lying on the couch, too far to reach the keyboard. I have a few shortcuts mapped to my mouse. You’d be surprised how much I can surf the web with just the mouse. And sometimes even with my left hand.

Microsoft: put it in OneDrive. We will use your content to train our AI models. No really this is fine.

Also Microsoft: If you ever try to leave us we will delete all of your data on all of your devices. We might even do it at random just for fun…No, we won’t warn you.

I love the random deletetion. They deleted a whole year of my university notes just because.

Me: “I’ve got an elaborate folder structure for all my documents.”

Windows: “You want to put this in the root directory of OneDrive.”

Me: "No, I want to put it in \SpecialFiles\ProjectName\IterationNo\DetailedSchematic"

Windows: “Root directory of OneDrive it is.”

I fucking hate onedrive sooo much for this, it kills me a little everytime and it happens all the time. Im just a husk at this point. God damn fuck you onedrive.

and it gives you that shitty prompt with like 3 locations to dark pattern you into using it instead of just putting you in the explorer window so you can go right to where you want to fucking save it. Wasting a shitload of time.

Uninstall it. It’s an optional component.

Not on work locked down pcs its not.

Exactly.

Because My Documents is where Windows keeps all your save games from the last decade and beyond, because why would I use it to store MY DOCUMENTS?

That’s why I debloat windows anytime I do a new install. Drop that box 🥊

It’s a work computer, so my options are limited

Good god. Putting stuff in the desktop is a big yuck. Your desktop probably looks like your room.

The desktop is like the inbox of files, inbox-zero it and it’s a tidy place to keep things in focus until they’re sorted and filed away or deleted.

Right. Why have an easy to locate area to quickly access temporary files, amiright?

yeah like a downloads folder

Not every temp file is downloaded.

If a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty one signify?

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The visitor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself, “it is overfull, no more will go in!”.

“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “your desktop is full of documents and shortcuts. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

Zen

I alternate between a cluttered and empty desktop.

Your desktop probably looks like your room.

What is “your room”? Which room?

That’s my comfort room

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