Windows you fucking clown OS, leave my desktop icons the fuck alone! I put them where they are for a reason, not for you to go and vomit on my preference settings and mess everything up again!
Is there a single human dev left at Microsoft or is it completely taken over by AI slop now?

...they probably don't test the retention of icon position on the Desktop, given how they assume it should be clutter-free...

/jk

IIRC default content since Windows 10 is the Recycle Bin... could be since earlier, but I just don't remember.

...perhaps you should enable some * cough * _Telemetry_ so that they know about your problem.

/s

/* I'm sure they'd just _love_ that. */

I‘m seriously considering to switch to SteamOS and leave this dumpster fire of an OS behind.

Lensflare SteamOS is actually nice. Probably depends on the HW, though. If, for some reason, you can't install it on your hardware, Manjaro + Proton is the next best thing...

...unless you like macOS && want things to be configured out-of-the-box, then you go for Garuda Dr460nized Gaming edition.

@D-4got01-01 has gaming as a profession what is really cool.

But @Lensflare, aren't you a bit old for games? :P Just install xubuntu and work with my on my programming language. I have something extremely sick. If this works, I can maybe make a Rust LLM as well. I am fine tuning a custom LLM to vibe code in my own scripting language. Imagine creating hundred example applications. It already has an HTTP server working since it has just sockets in it's std. It can serve files. Files req/s (serving README.md 200 lines) is 256. That's not a lot, but i deleted async (what i made using threads for multi core shit) because i couldn't figure out a bug. Totally deleted and such. Tested it very well. But if you run the unit tests around 1000 times, somewhere around 600 it fails and it still does. Fuck. But just string response is 4000req/s still and the http is parsed using my language. I just implemented benchmark and will compare to python. Fibionachi and stuff.

@retoor nobody is too old for games. You never seen a grandpa playing world of warcraft all day long? That‘s me in a few years.

I lost interest on making an own language since Swift came out. Seriously, you can never beat it.

> 'nobody is too old for games.'.

So true. I remember playing 'Donkey Konga' years ago. Coworker looked at me, the bongos, then back at me in a very weird way && said something along the line of "Don't you think you're too old for this?".

Immediately dismissed his argument. Games are fun.

@retoor > '@D-4got01-01 has gaming as a profession what is really cool.'

Well, common misconception that I 'play games the whole day' which I often hear from doctors when going for a check-up. Can't say there is absolutely none, though. Some tests do involve just gaming.

/* Also, that's a funny typo in there. */

@retoor @D-4got10-01 one time when I was eating grapes a a friend of mine said to me that only kids eat grapes.
Wtf is wrong with people?

@Lensflare > 'Wtf is wrong with people?'.

They are retarded... Well... enough of them are, anyway. It's weird how people love age-gating things w/ the whole 'you're too old for _that_'.

@D-4got10-01 *sigh* I‘m too old for this shit.

@Lensflare I'm using cachyos and very happy with it (for gaming) :D

The desktop is also the only folder you can arrange and group icons the way you want in a 2D space.

@Wisecrack … until Windows decides to fuck it up.

I vaguely remember that in some older Windows it was possible to do it in every folder and even customize folders with backgrounds etc.

@Lensflare Sounds like you should get a mac ;P

Though it does remind me that I need to write my own file manager for linux because they all suck in one way or another

@BordedDev I have a mac for coding and work and a Windows PC for gaming.

@Lensflare With the larger market move to linux, you'll be able to run entertainment and code, all on one machine.

@Lensflare "I vaguely remember that in some older Windows it was possible to do it in every folder and even customize folders with backgrounds etc."

Golden ages of myth and legend, do not sing to me of lost days of yore!

@Lensflare "only kids eat grapes."

The stupidest shit I've read all week.

And I've read some stupid shit, let me tell you.

@BordedDev > 'I need to write my own file manager for linux'

I've found 'Krusader' to be quite good. If it's !available for a distro, 'Double Commander' is the next best thing... You could always go w/ 'Midnight Commander' if you feel nostalgic, though.