like for example, one time i was browsing through some neofetch screenshots and i found out that a lot of them have anime or furry stuff as their wallpaper or profile picture, but they use linux. hmm or maybe they even have proprietary videogame images!! i used to think that was bad but now i realize that even if you have proprietary stuff as images like, furry fanart of some proprietary videogame, it’s like just a picture, a jpeg. but still, younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files, but i still enjoy linux. what do you think?? please

    • adrihii@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 days ago

      umm,i’m not joking or am a teenager, i’m 21, it’s just that when i was 18 and stuff i was really into that, into linux. into free software, and my entire life was about that, i still like gnu but i also like other stuff like the furry fandom!!

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    8 days ago

    Most people are not obsessed monomaniacs with room for only one interest in their lives. That means that most Linux users are interested in things other than free software, so many will choose to “dress up” their computers in ways that showcase their other interests, and may use material that is not under copyleft licenses to do so. If this causes you anxiety or confusion, you may want to speak to a mental health professional. Seriously.

  • prototype_g2@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    What do I think? I think it’s normal to have wallpapers that aren’t related to the kernel of you OS and I’m struggling to make sense of how people setting their wallpaper to something they like could possibly be a problem.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    Man, if you’re freaking out over “”“proprietary wallpapers”“” just wait until you see how many MacOS clones there are in r/unixporn lmao, chill.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 days ago

    Minding wallpapers if they’re not questionable or illegally obtained sounds like a symptom of a disorder to me. That’s my answer.

  • Karmmah@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 days ago

    TIL there’s people thinking about stuff like this. Honestly a wallpaper is just some image that you chose to make your desktop nice to look at to me. I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.

    • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 days ago

      Every time I work with a Mac, Hackintosh, etcetera, the 5K upscale of XP Bliss is my default as a joke (except I think near the end of one school year, where I set the background to something from OS 9).

      It was even my iPhone background for a while, though right now, it’s a random James Webb image.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 days ago

      I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.

      Well now I suddenly care.

      Why the hell do you want to watch the world burn?

      ;)

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 days ago

    When you say ‘younger me’ do you mean like four year old you, because eight year old current you doesn’t make sense? I have no idea what the whole point of this post is, other than it must be some chatgpt output someone thought would be funny to throw out.

      • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        9 days ago

        younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files

        That’s good for starters. What do you mean by “younger me would’ve freaked out by the idea of having proprietary files”? Exactly what proprietary files are you talking about? Background pics are usually jpeg, or png, and those are not proprietary to linux, so I think that’s part of what has everyone confused about this. Are you also insinuating that people can only use certain backgrounds based on either belief or their own actual background? I am curious to hear your explanation if you aren’t a llm. And by the way, saying you don’t use chatgpt is exactly what I would expect chatgpt to reply with. LOL. I keed I keed.

        • adrihii@discuss.tchncs.deOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          9 days ago

          by proprietary files i mean stuff like msi files or, psd or illustrator files (which gimp and inkscape can open with ease), and also if richard stallman was here i think he would say something like having images of proprietary software would be like endorsing them, like what if you had images of fascist dictators?? that would be his way of seeing things,i think so