Solid, black, I find it much easier on the eyes than anything else. Sadly at work I can't change to any high contrast settings, and have some client specific background image.

Me too I'm using, at $work, solid black since years. I must admit rarely I see the desktop but I organize there a lot of link and folders of links, grouped in the grid by category.

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...the one I'm not looking at because I'm lost in the beauty of nature on a hike in the mountains.

Few years ago I had a 3-month-vacation in New Zealand. Since then my desktop-background @work is a slideshow of my best 20 fotos of that trip. Great to keep the memories fresh! (And much better than the standard-desktop with the logo of the company ;-)

Rata

4 desktops, 4 cats: all desktops have approx 1/3rd of the solid black brackground filled with a feline on a black background: two black panthers, and two black cats

A black panther on a black background; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe leaps immediately to mind."

"Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it."

I like color, and I like the background to not be too “busy”. Black causes too much contrast with icons and other screen elements for me, and a busy background is distracting and makes it harder to pick out icons and such on my desktop. I also use switchable workspaces. Since I’m WFH there’s a couple for work and a couple for personal stuff. So one desktop rotates pictures daily, one desktop always has a picture of the building where I (normally) work, and a couple others have solid colors. Special shout out to Digital Blasphemy for two decades of cool desktops (I’m a paid member).

I used to get my wallpapers from Digital Blasphemy like 20 to 25 years ago. I'm happy they still exist.

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I used to have really cool backgrounds for my desktops, but they've turned over often enough that I haven't gotten around to moving on past the boring defaults. Which reminds me, I'd better start looking for a new desktop .. my plan is to stay ahead of the catastrophic failures.

Two monitors, both with pictures of departed hounds

I only really se them after a restart as there are usually too many windows open...

At home all the systems have the Debian default artwork which is usually abstract and subtle. I don't use icons, and I full screen most programs, so I mostly don't see it most of the time anyway. At work I put up with whatever the client wants, though if I can get rid of their default and just have a solid black background then that's what I do.

Corporate logos are all good and well, but if you can't work out what the icons are then it's not much use... At one firm I worked for, the security team didn't want branding to be visible as they thought it was a risk, but marketing wanted it on everything, and so our badges and laptops all sported corporate logos....