Asking because I only recently realized that I’ve been running KDE default wallpapers for over a year without noticing. I’m also debating whether to switch to something more “fun” and aligned to my hobbies
As far as I’m aware, popular OSes/DEs tend to have a healthy selection of high-quality default wallpapers, and some OSes/DEs even have wallpaper “shops”. So I’d like to ask what you all use! If you are using a custom one, love to hear where/why you got it.
If you want to share your custom wallpaper feel free to
Edit: thank you all! I didn’t realize how many of you use solid colors… as well as the number of people who don’t think too much about wallpapers since you don’t look at it often (frankly the same for me). For the ones who shared: thanks a ton. Also fun story: there was a recurring joke on r/Unixporn about anime wallpapers but I guess it is not remotely as popular outside of the ricing community
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Best thing about the year 2020 onwards is Wallpaper Engine
I always use images from the JWST:
https://esawebb.org/images/?sort=-release_date
They’re all gorgeous.
For my phone backgrounds, I use pictures made by Seok98.
GiTS/Jujutsu Kaisen anime girls.
*I’m so surprised how many people use solid colours. Interesting to see other peoples apparent mindset in that regard.
*Should also say I don’t use desktop icons like a dirty pleb >:3 i use ubuntu btw (and idrc if you use icons)
I like black wallpaper. I like to keep the serial number of the machine visible. the wallpaper is black with the serial number.
my phone lock screen includes my imeis, mac address, bluetooth mac, model, and serial no
I’m just quirky like that
Anyone know if there’s something easy to use like Wallpaper Engine for Linux? Specifically on Bazzite
I have an anime girl wallpaper with a pink reddish theme
Patrician taste
Wow, that is a cool praise
I’m stealing it
Solid color: Light-ish dull-ish green. Been using it since I concluded that I didn’t like the Win98 default, and it has carried over to other OSes after that.
Roughly #81e39b
I always use a simple diagonal gradient with the three colours of the bisexual flag. I am bisexual, but it’s mostly because I like the colours. Whenever I get a new device, I generate an appropriately-sized gradient for its screen using GIMP.
The one exception is the background of my Steam Deck in desktop mode, which is the following because I thought it was funny:
I like this artist’s stuff for my wallpapers on all my devices except my work machine:
I have a script that pulls a fresh image from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and sets it as a wallpaper. But I rarely see it because 99.9% of the time my windows are maximized and I don’t have things on the desktop.
Custom. I have a folder of wallpapers I’ve been accumulating over the past thirty years, since I got my first laptop (brick of a thing, too) on my way to college. There are photos, parks from comics, MS Paint drawings, diagrams, even screenshots of previous desktop setups.
Setting your wallpaper to an old desktop screenshot is painful in a nostalgic and philosophical way. I did it once and cried for hours.
I’m using the “Astronomy Pic of the Day”.
TLDR: if you’re a VRChat player/enjoyer, Find a cool world in VRChat to pose in with your favorite avatar by yourself or with friends and take a picture with the in-game camera.
Alternatively, “Elite Dangerous” is a great desktop background generator! Find a cool spot and take a screenshot. Boom. New desktop background haha.
/end TLDR
I play alot of VRChat and I found a cool world in VRChat called " VR art ‘New place’ ". It’s basically a VR art museum where you click on the “painting” and it teleports you inside of it. The scenery in the world is super super pretty and very cool; I highly recommend it.
What I did is I found a spot that I thought would look good for a desktop background. I posed on a dock facing a giant moon. And then used VRChat’s fly camera to give some distance. Thus making my avatar appear small in the center and expanding the view of the art in the world. That way the focus is moreso on the world with my small avatar in the center.
It’s kind of like placing yourself in the middle of your favorite desktop background. Granted I suppose any experienced photoshopper or photographer could do something similar haha.
As for Elite Dangerous, I’ve enjoyed flying my ship to a cool star system and then using the spectator camera to take pictures of cool phenomena and use those as desktop background too. Some of my favorites include: landing on Ring planets, finding a tiny planet with a view of 3 or more stars, or pictures of black holes.
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Custom wall papers always for personal machines.
I use to have a monotone black wallpaper because I had weird game glitches when I had a wallpaper, but I don’t play that game anymore so now I have one of the moon.
