The Making Of Windows 10 Hero Desktop Image

Tuxon86 said:
An operating system is a tool, not a fashion statement.
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Yes, they are, and its pretty. But I'd rather they get the OS itself right on release, then add this stuff later. This just seems frivolous and a whole lot of hoopla for what is a glorified wallpaper.
 
schizrade said:
Why is that? Aesthetics are important, and designers make things around us livable.
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Yes, they are, and its pretty. But I'd rather they get the OS itself right on release, then add this stuff later. This just seems frivolous and a whole lot of hoopla for what is a glorified wallpaper
 
ICOM said:
I run W7 in Classic mode with a blank black desktop. Got a picture of this user type?

My only interest in operating systems is whether my programs/games of interest run properly. Anything outside of that parameter is irrelevant.
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WOW! Talk about gimping an OS.
 
thats cool and all but am i the only one here who thinks spending more on a better filesystem to replace ntfs e.g. zfs like would be money better spent ?
 
Moogle Stiltzkin said:
thats cool and all but am i the only one here who thinks spending more on a better filesystem to replace ntfs e.g. zfs like would be money better spent ?
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The 16-gb optimal performance sweet spot requirement for ZFS kills that. And they have tried to kill NTFS several times, the biggest attempt being WinFS. This and XP Service Pack probably set Microsoft 5 years back in operating systems.

Supplementing NTFS, kind of like what they did with ReFS is probably the best way to go, but it will take some time to filter down to consumers.
 
rudy said:
True but then again if people will run live background on a phone (android) then why not anywhere? Also now days laptops are typically plenty smart enough to turn these things on and off depending on the situation. Unplugged use a static image, plugged in go live. As long as there is an option to make a stock pure black background I don't care what they put in it by default.
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I kinda thought about the live Android background thing when I was making my post. The reason why I didn't mention it was because I didn't think that many people really ran them long term. But yes, you're right about there being automatic shutdown of stuff like that when a laptop is on battery power that I forgot about. :)
 
Big company, big bucks.
you could have gone old school and
used a real window,taken it outside and
taken photos through the window.

My oldest daughter just graduated from
NYUs art school.....I get this.....the show is
part of the asthetic.
 
rudy said:
True but then again if people will run live background on a phone (android) then why not anywhere? Also now days laptops are typically plenty smart enough to turn these things on and off depending on the situation. Unplugged use a static image, plugged in go live. As long as there is an option to make a stock pure black background I don't care what they put in it by default.
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It's been tried. Vista ultimate supported that via Dreamscene, and it was largely hampered by slow, low memory video cards and programs getting upset for various reasons. Stardock (who actually created Dreamscene) kept trying with Deskscapes but while the hardware issues are long resolved there's still driver and program problems.

Android can probably get away with it because there's likely a official way to display graphics that's enforced, Windows is just now getting around to doing that, so something like UAC was 8 years ago would have to happen to get people to stop. That is standardize and stop doing stupid things with how you do graphics.
 
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