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Surfing the Desktop 

To look at or browse your desktop files and documents when your internet is down, while either waiting for your internet connection to be restored or if you're just bored.
The internet has been down all day, I've been surfing the desktop in the meantime. I even found some videos I forgot I had downloaded.
Surfing the Desktop by CD3366 September 5, 2011
Word of the Day on September 7, 2011

Surfing the Desktop 

When your internet is down and you're trying to find whatever porn you have saved on your computer.
"Dammit, the internet's down. Guess I gotta go surfing the desktop"

The Year Of The Linux Desktop 

some wank folktale which linux nerds circlejerk to each other about how the day will come where linux is gonna become mainstream and replace windows as the world's most popular desktop OS.
"2025 is gonna be the year of the linux desktop"
"you said the same thing for 2023, 2022, 2003, and 1999"

there will never be the year of linux desktop

Desktop background of the week 

Desktop background of the week is an award given by the YouTuber "YuB" to express how well the Background is. He puts it as his background and the creator gets to brag about how their drawing showed up on some lazy old dad's computer.
"You.. win.. "Desktop background of the week" so great job, I guess..."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
Word of the Day on May 30, 2026