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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

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[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?

;)

[–] Karmmah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

If I remember correctly I got them from this collection on archive.org and honestly they are just really nice quality pictures. But probably also a bit of nostalgia. 😄

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn't until a few months ago.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 0 points 1 week ago

I have an AI-generated image that looks very much like Bliss, the prompt was ""Deep Blue sky. Small puffy, bright white clouds. Grassy green hill."