A wallpaper question: People or No People?

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On the wallpaper on your computer, do you like to have people? Or do you avoid wallpapers with people in them?

My most common wallpapers involve horses or desert, but no people.

My current wallpaper is like below, but with the top and bottom cropped and the image widened for a dual monitor wallpaper:



The above wallpaper is not great for a dual monitor because there is is a horse that exists in both monitors at once. The best dual monitor wallpaper doesn't have items that you focus on in the center.

The wallpaper I have primarily used for the last four or five years was of a number of horses running to the right of the photographer with tall trees in the background.

I have rarely ever used wallpaper on a computer with people on it. When I do, it doesn't take long before I switch to something else. Even best is when there is no sign of human presence. The wallpaper above doesn't quite qualify since it does have a barbed wire fence in the background, but you really have to look at it for that.

On my laptop, I had a picture of a rattlesnake:



I have to admit that I had an ulterior motive for that one. I would sit in the booth by the register where people would order and pay. Most people will naturally look at your laptop when they notice it. I always enjoyed the gasps and shudders of people who hate snakes.

I've got leopard print

I'm getting a Malwarebytes warning of a trojan on this thread.

My wallpaper is just plain reddish brown with no features at all. Features on wallpaper would just distract me and make some of the desktop shortcuts harder to see. So no people, no animals, nothing. I chose reddish brown in the faint hope that it would be less likely to keep me awake if I'd been using my computer before going to bed, since I don't want to stop using my computer just because bedtime is coming up.

I've never understood why people bother with wallpaper, so I looked it up. Apparently they do it to "personalise" the computer, to express their personality (in my case I know it's my computer and don't need such reassurance of the fact - to make it my own I use a variety of technical gambits to defeat Microsoft's continual attempts to make it their computer, and to get things so that I can get the results I want with the minimum of fuss and bother). They also just like a particular picture (in my case pictures soon become invisible if I see them often), or they get off on inspirational pictures or quotes (in my case inspirational stuff like that does little or nothing for me), or they may have a picture of a loved one to make them feel more comfortable (doesn't work on me, I know it's only a picture). In other cases they use wallpapers to help organise their work - that seems a lot more up my street but I don't know how that would work, and I can't imagine anything of that kind that would be an improvement on the desktop shortcuts I use. It seems I'm as "heartless" as Mr. Spock when it comes to computer wallpaper. It'll be interesting to see whether most Aspies here have similar views to mine or not.

But I don't look upon wallpaper users with disdain. Some of their wallpaper photos are very impressive, just that if I had to look at them every day they'd soon become invisible to me.

Generally, I tend towards wallpapers that don't have people in them, but some wallpapers I've had do have people in them. I'm not against it, but abstract is better to me.

Currently my wallpaper is a picture of my laptop, where on the screen is another picture of my laptop, and then another, off to infinity (or at least far enough that it looks infinite)

In the past I've mostly had pictures of my cats, but that's just because most of the pictures I take are of my cats. I don't have any objection to putting people in my wallpaper.