10.3 and 10.4 were the best ones and I still use one of those two to this day.
Same!
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#132It's not mentioned on the page, but at least 10.0 to 10.8 are AI upscaled -- you can tell from the artifacts when looking at the image closely. I don't think it's reasonable to call this an "archive", as the link does, when the images have undisclosed changes to them and are clearly not the original files :/
Thank you for saying it, undisclosed "enhancements" like this just remind me of the botched Ecce Homo painting restoration. A request to the world: If you're going to post an "enhanced" version of something, at least share the original too.
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#133I was far more used to the MacsBug screen of despair.
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#134(admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers i used the catalina bg until late last year, when they started shipping the former appletv video backgrounds as the default, because it was just so good. seriously, after that on a 5k display, i thought i would never enjoy another desktop background
> (admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers made me chuckle :-) But for real, there is something about a good wallpaper, at least for me, the wallpaper being the first thing I set on a new linux install. I fully believe that a solid default wallpaper can help with desktop manager adoption (i.e. kde, gnome, xfce4), at least for the bohemians types like me!
> the wallpaper being the first thing I set on a new linux install
That's something I also always do. Even though I use i3 with 100% opaque windows (transparency is ugly and distracting IMO). I could only see wallpaper after startup and maybe 2-3 times during the day if I'm switching from my usual workflow. But for some reason I always set the background. Perhaps an old habit from Windows XP days (Autumn is the best XP wallpaper, fight me).
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#135These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
I love the grass backdrop, but that folded over tip near the center-top always jumps out at me.
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#136These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
I noticed they recently brought back the clownfish as a built in option on iPhone!
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#137These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
Debatable. They're visually too busy and noisy to see all the time.
I agree completely. The best wallpaper is pure black. I haven't used anything other than black in ~20 years.
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#138Meanwhile I have the same generic blue background from Rhapsody still on all my devices.
As in Mac OS X before it was Mac OS X? That Rhapsody?
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#139These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
These were the exact two I had in mind. I never used default wallpapers aside from these two.
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#140The one that mystifies me, is why Apple pulled their original Dubai At Night screensaver[0]. [0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766810966790684 (This seems to be the only place to find it online).
That's weird, it immediately made me think of the Genshin impact loading screen. https://youtu.be/rBnfA4pXw6U