Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated
And then put it into an os that sloppily compresses its wallpapers before displaying them
this pisses me off so much. You can set an HDR wallpaper too, but only if you insert a special file into its place to trick Windows into working properly
The compression artifacts always led me to believe it was computer generated.
Hahaha that's exactly what came to mind. Glad I'm not the only one!
It's kinda weird how much of a performance difference the wallpaper makes. I once installed Linux mint on an old laptop and the perf of managing windows and some other things was terrible until I changed the wallpaper to a plain color.
Meanwhile windows will still lag switching between desktops if they have different wallpapers, even on high end computers
After using Linux for a while all the window animations of windows start to look jarring too
Kinda weird to think this will be the last version of Windows I use.
I mean they fucking advertised it as such when I bought it
Oh man I forgot about that!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
Remember all those great updates to windows 10 that brought cool new features such as... Yeah, I don't either.
For me it was Windows 7.
its very 'close encounters'. i like it better than i like the operating system.
I agree, the wall paper is actually really nice. The rest of the system, not so much.
Ngl, I genuinely find the Windows 11 wallpaper (which is not what this article is about) very beautiful.
I like the one that looks like Pringles, yum
Same, that’s what I’ve got on my work win 11 machine.
I guess I'll be missing out for the rest of my life
That's what happens when you shoot a laser though Windows lol
Never knew and that's how spot on Mr. GMUNK had it, very impressed. Only saw it a gazillion.5 times so I never really had a chance.
And it's still worse than a picture of a hill in Sonoma
That's okay, if you want a quick nostalgia trip, just open one of the many control panels. Use the one according to the Windows era you want.
At least it isn't a big blue mitochondria
Meanwhile we're shooting penguins with lasers for our wallpapers...
I've used Ubuntu for a while a couple of years ago, and honestly, for daily usage and some light editing worked quite well. The gaming was an issue back then, but since i've brought a Steam Deck, i've stopped bothering playing games on windows anyway. Right now I'm looking around for others Linux disto. I've just installed Fedora on a 10 year old laptop and for now it works like a charm.
Who asked huh ?
I use arch btw
What does this have to do with the article?