I’ve always loved computers and just messing around with them. From my Amiga workbench icons through to Windows and Linux, I enjoyed and spent many house ricing my desktop. Everything from building stats widgets and foobar skins to stripping out crap I don’t use from my OS.
Massive thanks to Vaxry for creating Hyprland and reigniting my long-time love for tinkering with my desktop.
I’ve now spent over a year on Linux (my longest run in a while) and because I no longer need Adobe I will never switch back. I spent a few months on KDE then found the tiling based window manager Hyprland. I fell in love (it kinda reminded me of Blackbox) and at the same time started using AI a lot for work. This opened up a whole world of bash scripting and really customising my desktop
- Theme switcher, including the websites I use regularly
- Wallpaper selector
- Heavily customised Soundcloud music player
- Shopify sales in my taskbar
- Git commits tracker
2026 Update
I updated this post and added some more screenshots. It’s wild to look back and see that WinXP a quarter of a century ago looked better (imo) than current windows, and was much faster to use.
Bloat sucks.
AI code gen has kept me coming back and tweaking my desktop with:
- Master
colors.toml - Auto generated colour schemes for
- Obsidian
- VS Code
- NeoVim
- Convert Omarchy themes
- Themed websites (Soundcloud, X etc)
2025 Linux
My favourite theme (Dracula) from the seven in my custom switcher
2024 Linux
2008 Ubuntu
2008 Windows
2007 Windows Vista
2006 Windows XP
2005 bbLean
2005 Windows XP
2005 Linux Ubuntu
2004 Linux Debian
2003 Litestep
I didn’t keep any screenshots from before early 2000’s unfortunately. I would love to have stuff from my early PC and even earlier Amiga days.