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The first thing I do in Windows is replace the background image with a solid black

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I use the Windows 95 desktop color because it reminds me of a time when I liked computers.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way.

Windows 2000 (and Server 2003) changed from the 95/98 dark cyan to a shade of azure/sky blue. That's another choice that might be quite popular.

It's actually called "teal" in X11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Color_name_cha... — It's also available on Windows 10 by default where it's called "Seafoam Teal"

Wow thought I was one of the few that did this. I much prefer a solid black ground since you can see all the icons and writing under them clearly. Also makes the screen darker and so softer on the eyes.

My Windows 10 desktop is solid black, too. In contrast my Mac's desktop is solid white (and almost always empty).

I do that too. On a new phone one of my first steps is to put my hand over the camera and take a picture--oddly enough, that seems to be the easiest way to get some black.

I just create a 1x1 pixel png, black, of course, and it does the job.

Scrolling down on web pages in the 90s made of tiny repeating textures and watching the renderer struggle to keep up with painting has instilled a deep fear of using extremely small images in tiling. What an icky feeling to find out your desktop may have some off-the-charts polygon count for its plain black background.

I would expect the OS to just scale the image to screen size once when it boots (or whatever) and cache that image.

The neighboring comment is dead, but that is basically what Windows does IIRC. When you set it, it prerenders the image at the screen resolution and caches it.

I set each of my machines and VMs to a different (dark) background color so I know what machine I’m in.

I loved the XP logo with the tree on a green grass field and blue sky. Had a very human/happy feel to it.

Windows 10 bg is kinda depressing on a rainy gloomy day. Seattle is like that for almost half the year.

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