The rise of OSX (bear in mind, when it got here alongside Apple had a single-digit slice of the pc market) meant that individuals ultimately obtained used to the concept of a life with no desktop personalization. These days most individuals don’t even change their wallpapers anymore.

Within the previous days of Home windows 3.1, it was frequent to stroll into an workplace and see every individual’s desktop colours, fonts and wallpapers tuned to their personalities, identical to their bodily desk, with one’s household portrait or crops.

It’s a giant loss. Android and Linux desktops nonetheless supply huge quantities of personalisation choices – thank god – however the the opposite main platforms have all individuality stamped out of them. It’s boring.