The first time I met Fedora, I’m absolutely stunned with most of its editions that brings level of professionalism, polish, and consistent design poured into it as a community project where that time much Linux world still brew with wild themes, opinionated directions, and absolute free design (Justin Bieber Linux).
I wish the professionalism could be back. I’m not saying putting a painting as a wallpaper is wrong and also this isn’t about meaning or beautifulness since those are personal matter, but I just find it more fitting for a technological desktop being neutral and neat, it just fell more natural, simpler and less distracting.
Just some of my thoughs, dont take it too seriously.
Old Fedora is basically vanilla GNOME 2/3 with Fedora backgrounds and branding.
To be honest, I’ve embraced the paradigm of GNOME 3 since its first release and don’t really miss GNOME 2, but Fedora backgrounds is a different story that gives me a cozy and warm feeling, so I’ve been using them for years, and my current background is from F37.
In fact, when I started my Linux journey with another distro, I was already using the FC6 background before I even realized that Fedora would become my new home a few years later.
By the way, old Fedora backgrounds can be installed from the repos:
