Is there some rule about “thou shalt not clutter thine desktop” that no one told me about? Twice this weekend I’ve been chastised by people whose computer experience roughly equals a tenth of mine that I have too much crap on my desktop, and that I should spend time to fix that.
My rule for desktop cleanliness is this: If there are so many icons that it slows down the system or that they don’t all fit, clean it up. Until then, there are far more important and interesting things to do.
Plus, if I move them off of my desktop, I’ll forget where they are.
I don’t know: it seems that the ever-increasing Newbification of things is making life miserable for more classic geeks (as I claim to be). To me, a megabyte will always equal 1024 kilobytes, and a kilobyte will always equal 1024 bytes. All this decimal-megabytes and MiB/GiB/KiB crap reeks of hard drive marketing ploys and people who have enough trouble with the metric system that subbing in 2^10 for 10^3 is too much of a mental exercise.
Sometimes I yearn for those days when geeks were geeks, computers were slow, and marketing types stayed the fuck away. Then I look at Windows XP, and the yearning only increases.
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