I used my notebook to demo something the other day and I got a resounding round of snorts and snickers when my desktop popped up on the main screen. Were people mocking my Hello Kitty wallpaper? Nah. I don’t run with wallpaper. Haven’t since Windows 3.1, when my color palette would freak out after something caused desktop to repaint… at the time, a quality bitmap caused a slow down for painting too which sucked. You know, back when video cards were video cards – instead of GPU’s – and had less memory than… a latte? Like 8MB of on-board VRAM and you were rockin’ to have that.

Anyway, no, they weren’t mocking that. They were gawking at the position of my taskbar. When pressed with questions as to “why would I do something so weird” I answered. Hoo boy, did I answer. Let me explain why I have a left docked taskbar.
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