i'm on a quest searching for something, yet i will not explain further unless you do me a favor. i want you to post screenshots (png) of your desktops and i will guess if it's Windows or not. so mod away and try your best to hide your system, i will reveal it anyway. i even smell your food!

okay, some rules:
1. no blank black screens! no blank screens at all. no matter what color.
2. file format should be PNG. if you can't make a PNG for what any reason, use BMP (lol then i know it's Windows), or high quality GIF or JPG.
3. no screenshots of full-screen screenshots!
4. no VM!
5. no magic!


ah heck, forget the rules! let's have some fun!

Here goes nothing:

Taiyo.uk wrote:

Tut tut far to easy. You have to be a real prat not to guess this one, it's windows obviously.

quiet, thou art banned!

Yellow Robot wrote:Here goes nothing:

wtf how the hell???? XD thats MY old Win XP setup! or was that rule #3?

@ Taiyo.uk:
i dare not say anything else but Linux. that wallpaper freaks me out!

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i think i know how 4m's gonna do it...

Windows i say.

im not sure about my theory... but yeah. im gonna figure out how he does it.

Taiyo.uk wrote:image of desktop here

Can I get a link to your wallpaper please?

Summer Willow wrote:Can I get a link to your wallpaper please?

Found it on kde-look.org: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=41642

come on people! don't be shy!

Thought someone would have done this by now:

I think he's just guessing based on the WM appearance. Taiyo.uk is using kwm, probably on Linux, I was running standard explorer shell on windows, but I've modded a Windows-look-alike or three for kwm and a couple other wms.

I just realized, if you're asking us to mod linux to look like windows you'll allways guess correct unless someone is stupid enough to post a windows screenshot...

I think he's basing it on the picture formats themselves. Don;t they save system info or something?

sure, i could look at the hex code, but i don't do that. i will tell later what it's based on.

@ Dave
definitely not Windows. and if i had to guess what, i'd say it's Solaris.

@ [TSA] Psychcf
now dont tell me thats NOT linux! definitely not Windows. but it's a damn good Vista look-a-like.

btw, nobody said i was right, yet.

well, you got mine right. you were referring to my screen werent u? or bender's?

4m wrote:@ Dave
definitely not Windows. and if i had to guess what, i'd say it's Solaris.

Nope, it's not Solaris... Looks like ReactOS

KadaverJack wrote:

4m wrote:@ Dave
definitely not Windows. and if i had to guess what, i'd say it's Solaris.

Nope, it's not Solaris... Looks like ReactOS

I was going to say that but I didn't feel like it...

[TSA] Psychcf wrote:

KadaverJack wrote:

4m wrote:@ Dave
definitely not Windows. and if i had to guess what, i'd say it's Solaris.

Nope, it's not Solaris... Looks like ReactOS

I was going to say that but I didn't feel like it...

lol i was gonna say the same thing!

no, not really. i remember Dave had Solaris once, that's why i said it. thanks for the update.

on Linux, the fonts and graphics sometimes seem to be between the pixels, whereas on Windows they seem to be dead-on.

4m wrote:on Linux, the fonts and graphics sometimes seem to be between the pixels, whereas on Windows they seem to be dead-on.

I must say, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile, and I make a point of listening to ridiculous things.

It sounds like you've used Linux on an LCD with a misconfigured resolution. With different font-smoothing algorithms, it's certainly possible for fonts to be "between pixels" in the antialiasing or cleartype sense. But to have graphics "between pixels" sounds like a misconfigured LCD.

i don't know, but that's how i spot the difference.