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Oh man I am trying to apply but the application has so many odd questions I have never seen on any job application before: - "What are the most important things that shaped your personality and world-view?" - "What are your prospects, dreams, or expectations, career-wise?" - "Upload a screenshot of your desktop" - "Explain the organization of your desktop" The questions related to needing a photo of my desktop are fo…
> "Explain the organization of your desktop"
OT: I know I'm a weird and a Linux user (probably redundant, I also know), but am I really the only one who just doesn't have any icons on my desktop? If I want to open something, I just use my desktop environment's search to type the name of it; for the purposes of professional work, 95% of the time it's a browser, text editor, or a terminal, and I don't feel the need to have three lonely icons in the vast sea of my desktop background. If I need a certain file for some application, like a document, I also can just search for it easily using the same method, or just hit the "open" shortcut in whatever app I'm using and find it in the file manager. These are all things that ostensibly are not Linux specific; MacOS has Spotlight (and third-party alternatives like Alfred), and Windows literally a dedicated key with with their logo on it to open the start menu, and if anything I'd expect their users to use Finder/Windows Explorer _more_ often than Linux users. I always thought this was one of those things like "leaving everything in the inbox forever" versus "archiving it once you're done and just keeping the unread things in the inbox" where most people probably do the former but a small but opinionated minority do the latter, but it sounds like whoever wrote those questions hasn't ever met anyone who doesn't use desktop icons.