Just wondering if there is anyone else who automatically ditches the desktop image of their distro as soon as the installation is completed(?).

I nearly always ditch pictures in favour of a plain (usually) black background.

Who else?

not me, I kill the original art , replace it with a loop to give me changes in what is up there, but then most including me, it gets covered with apps anyways. so yeah... does it really matter whats up?

I've always liked custom DE stuff. Lately however I find myself in full screen on whatever I'm doing. As such to many custom things are kind of wasted time. I rarely see them.

At this very moment I'm actually about to change my main workstation from Ubuntu XFCE to Debian and go with a mostly vanilla Gnome Shell with a simple black wallpaper and little else.

Fedora's default wallpaper is so hideous that I think it was intentionally chosen to force you to change it.

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I'm in the habit of minimizing all windows when I'm not actively doing something, so I prefer to have a "slideshow" set up using images I've collected over the years from Windows "themes" Starry skies, lightning flashes, moonlight, rainbows, etc. and have them set to change every 30 minutes or so.

The same for Plasma/kde5.

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No, I don't.

I also set the desktop to slideshow in KDE. As I also have a collection of "wallpapers" that KDE's "slideshow" feature rotates through.

But most of the time I'm doing something, so I'm not normally seeing nor paying attention to the desktop anyway. So I end up thinking "what's the bloody point?" anyway... :shrugs:

I typically do a fairly minimal installation for either a desktop or a server. Then, for a desktop setup, I make changes to the panel that I want/need -- for example, it's gotta have a bunch of KDE's activities setup and an easily accessing way of launching a terminal, a file manager, KeePass, and Emacs -- and then go to work changing wallpapers for the different activities. Most of them are seasonal or astronomical photos (thanks Hubble!) but for my "Audio" activity it'll be something music-related. There's no way I want to be looking at a vendor/distribution logo all the time. For servers, on the pretty rare chance I might need to use the X environment on the server itself, I'll opt for a dark grey background for my desktop background and an obnoxious red background for root (as a warning that I'm working without a net). Then I'll move on to installing the rest of the applications I need---on servers, though, much of this work is done remotely.

I have a library of a couple of thousand wallpaper images that I've collected over the years. I configure them to run as a slideshow, changing every 15 or 30 minutes.

Most of them are pictures of scenery, geography, or wildlife, but a few of them are more on the abstract side. A few are pictures that I took myself and deemed wallpaper worthy. I like my pretty pictures.

I establish a single image as the desktop for a given piece of hardware. Regardless of OS installed on that hardware, if it gets a DE, I use that designated wallpaper. I've switched around between photos and abstract images, but whatever I pick stays the same for the lifetime of the hardware.

I use whatever wallpaper is either provided (if any) or my own collection. I never use a solid color. Some distros provide great wallpaper some provide nothing. Not a big deal to me. I do like going out and finding unique wallpapers though - some catch my eye and I have kept those for some time. I have had to update my collection over the years though because of purchasing an ultra wide 4k monitor. Those old 1920x1080 images don't cut any more...

wallpapers become irrelevant once you start using a tiling window manager