/me is so proud of his successful migration from Windows 7 to Arch Linux, he wants to share his desktop to celebrate.

I managed to find suitable replacements for all the Windows-only software that I'm used to (or could get it to work through Wine) and got LAN printer/scanner and Wacom tablet working nicely as well.

Haven't set up a development environment yet but already installed Bluefish, Emacs, Geany and LiteIDE for testing.

In summary: I do not need Windows for anything essential anymore now and have not booted into it for several days but I will keep it around for games which don't work in Wine (yet).

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Here's my "mobile" (lenovo X220) laptop (its what I'm using while I'm traveling)

I really don't see the desktop a lot so I haven't even bothered to configure it in any way.

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I decided it was time that I got back into Linux so I just formatted over my entire dual-boot system with a single Debian install + LXDE. I've never used LXDE so I'm just figuring out if it's enough. In the spirit of being minimalist it seems to lack a few features that I like (among them, reordering the "task bar" dynamically). It seems that XFCE might make up for some of LXDE's weaknesses so perhaps I'd be more comfortable there. I actually love Xmonad now, but ultimately I'm trying to get Steam and Counter-Strike: Source running and the last time I did that they wouldn't work properly if launched from outside of one of the system desktop environments (for yet unknown reasons).

I am still getting used to this system. My girlfriend has pretty much taken over my desk so I haven't been spending much time on my PC at home lately. I installed this wallpaper just now after installing the AMD video drivers and rebooting. Seems pretty well set up though now. Except for Steam... Which is non-trivial. So yeah.

Seriously, do you guys even see the wallpaper after 5 hours?

My desktop is boring (Windows 8.1 with blue background) so I won't post it. I use the desktop like a quick folder. Win-D brings it up and I put stuff there temporarily sometimes, but most of the time I don't see it.

I almost never see my desktop either and I would not have expected the word Desktop to be taken so literally. Real thread title should be more like "Post Your (Desktop) Environment (represented by a screenshot featuring menues, panels, trays and whatnot)" and tell a bit about any customizations you made. Why? Because I find this to be an interesting way of discovering what software others use(and how to do it) and also because the NSA needs to update their database from time to time.

To be fair, there are extra tools to allow for multiple desktops in Windows. Dragging to select and copy is possible by holding the CTRL key before starting to drag(a little + sign will appear at the cursor to indicate copy instead of move). Binutils... ok, probably only with MSYS2.

I use LXDE and find it to be highly customizable. Not sure what you mean by "reordering the taskbar dynamically" otherwise I could probably tell you where you can find the settings to make it do what you want (unless of course it lacks that particular feature).
I also like the way one can customize their own keyboard shortcuts: I have a script for taking a screenshot upon PrintScreen, saving it to a unique filename in a special screenshots folder and then opening the newly generated file in XNviewMP for quick editing/review. Also made a couple of shortcuts for maximizing a window to {left,right,top,bottom}+{half,quarter} of the screen (similar to what WinKey+Arrows does in Win7 but a bit more useful).

I have yet to find that fancy customizable system stats tool I saw elsewhere, which would print all kinds of info directly on the desktop, like diskspace, running processes, network interface status, ram usage and probably lots more.

Also looking for a retro theme for icons and widgets, something which looks like GEOS but haven't found any yet so I will probably have to learn how to make it myself.

I don't often see the desktop on my main monitor, but it's sometimes visible on a secondary monitor. I just have one of the Win 7 built-in themes though, so I'm not going to bother posting it.

My desktop is just the wallpaper. It's faster than anything I've ever used, in terms not only of resources but also of workflow.

That can be remedied from settings found in the "Desktop Preferences" (pcmanfm --desktop-pref) in the "Advanced" tab.

I do not recall having to do anything special to allow for this but in my lxde/openbox environment I can simply rearrange running applications by dragging and dropping their icons around in the taskbar.

In the lxde-rc.xml (e.g. ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml) add the following within the appropriate section:

The keys are arranged in a way which makes the most sense to me, as the CTRL key is to the left of the W key and the ALT key is to the right of the W key on my keyboard.

So W+{Up,Down,Left,Right} maximizes the window to the {top,bottom,left,right} half of the screen.

C+W+{Up,Down} maximizes to left{top,bottom} quarters of the screen and W+A+{Up,Down} to the right quarters accordingly.

Print key launches the screenshot script.

And the contents of screenshot.sh:

Meanwhile, I found that fancy stats-on-desktop tool I was looking for (it is called conky) and configured it for a couple of hours:
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Windows 7 with Xubuntu in a VM. Stuck with 8 (literally worse than Hitler. Literally) at work.

My desktop looks like this:
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Only thing really notable is that I still use Winamp, and I'm proud of it. 16 MB of RAM is all a damn mp3 player should use, and that's all it does.

Seriously! I ran Winamp in mono / low quality on a 486DX100 (BARELY). Why the hell should any player decoding an MP3, take more than 0-1% CPU usage? I'm looking at you every player other than Winamp in existence.

How did this happen?

That question comes up at least once a year.

Short answer: Magic!

Long answer:
I first joined in April 2001 as #1090. Back then, I only had irregular access to internet (maybe once a month or so or even less frequently). Later when I got internet access at home, I had forgotten about my first account, so I joined again. Eventually I found out I already had an account and they got merged (member number was taken from first account, join date from the second one).