And then put it into an os that sloppily compresses its wallpapers before displaying them
this pisses me off so much. You can set an HDR wallpaper too, but only if you insert a special file into its place to trick Windows into working properly
Oh this unlocked a memory of the hassle I went through trying to get rid of jpeg artifacts on my wallpaper on windows 7. It really pissed me off.
You remind me of something different but related. I noticed in Windows 98 that it would store a different setting for BMP wallpapers. And BMP wallpapers would also load in faster. So when you first set a BMP wallpaper, and then change it to a JPEG, it would remembrr both of threm. And it will still briefly display the BMP one on startup before it loads the JPEG one.
Somebody told me that they always use a tiled wallpaper to preserve memory, once.
They were sort of an advanced user in the 90s, but haven’t done much computer or engineering related work since then.
If we consider what machines Windows 95 ran on - not even that stupid. Back then.
It’s kinda weird how much of a performance difference the wallpaper makes. I once installed Linux mint on an old laptop and the perf of managing windows and some other things was terrible until I changed the wallpaper to a plain color.
Meanwhile windows will still lag switching between desktops if they have different wallpapers, even on high end computers
Kinda weird to think this will be the last version of Windows I use.
Oh man I forgot about that!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
Remember all those great updates to windows 10 that brought cool new features such as… Yeah, I don’t either.
WSL maybe? Kinda funny that a major feature is literally just the ability to use linux within windows.
Quite a cool wallpaper. Makes me why they decided not to include it anymore.
its very ‘close encounters’. i like it better than i like the operating system.
Ngl, I genuinely find the Windows 11 wallpaper (which is not what this article is about) very beautiful.
