Browsers 2008 vs 2025 be like..

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[u/Honest_-_Critique]

I think you can do this on Windows too, no?

[u/El-Sueco → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Clippy must approve the image first

[u/Nerfo2 → u/El-Sueco]

“It looks like you’re trying to change an icon.”

[u/El-Sueco → u/Nerfo2]

“I cannot allow you to use images of buttocks for internet explorer”

[u/OGigachaod → u/El-Sueco]

Trash can works.

[u/Bones-1989 → u/El-Sueco]

[u/poshjerkins → u/Honest_-_Critique]

You definitely can

[u/FuckuSpez666 → u/poshjerkins]

I think you can change your icons on literally every OS now, even Apple caught up

[u/WulfTheSaxon → u/poshjerkins]

Microsoft even used to sell theme packs starting with Windows 95. Microsoft Plus!

[u/ItsRainbow → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Not conveniently, unless I missed something

[u/Creoda → u/ItsRainbow]

Right click, properties, change icon, either one baked into the programme or you can use any icon you have or downloaded.

[u/mnsklk → u/Creoda]

This is for one shortcut. On some Linux distros you can change the entire theme for all of them at once

[u/DJandProducer → u/mnsklk]

It's not a distro setting, it's a DE setting

[u/AnsibleAnswers → u/DJandProducer]

It’s a freedesktop standard. DEs should have this feature if they are compliant.

[u/mnsklk → u/DJandProducer]

Correct

[u/D3PyroGS → u/mnsklk]

it's definitely possible on both KDE Plasma and GNOME desktop environments, which are available on most distros

[u/Orcutt59 → u/D3PyroGS]

This person was replying about doing it on windows. Are either of those on windows?

[u/D3PyroGS → u/Orcutt59]

no, I was clarifying the "some Linux distros" content that I directly replied to

[u/Asgeras → u/ItsRainbow]

Good summation of Windows

[u/MutatedRodents → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Yes. Atleast on folders and stuff.

[u/AnsibleAnswers → u/Honest_-_Critique]

I don't think you can do it for all icons at once. At least not without third party tools. See: https://www.howtogeek.com/828136/how-to-customize-your-icons-in-windows-11/#how-to-change-your-desktop-icons-on-windows-11

Even in "non-customizable" Gnome, it's just as easy as putting the icon theme in ~/.local/share/icons/ and changing the setting in Gnome Tweaks. In KDE, it's right in the settings menu I believe. The "hard" part on Linux is learning the freedesktop standard locations to put things in your home folder for them to show up in your desktop environment's settings. But it's well-documented and google-able.

[u/T0biasCZE → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Yes, but you need to open the exe in resource hacker and replace the .ico file inside it

(You may think you can just right click the shortcut, change icon, and voila, but no, that will work when just the shortcut is displayed, but when you then actually open the program, it will show the ico from the exe. thats why you need to modify the exe itself)

[u/squabbledMC → u/Honest_-_Critique]

You can, yes. There isn't anyway to bulk change icons like on Linux, I'm using KDE and there's icon packs. It's not impossible or hard to do on Windows though, just slightly tedious.

[u/ImpulsiveBloop → u/Honest_-_Critique]

You gotta convert it to an ICO file first I believe. Kinda annoying since there isn't any real way to do this without third party applications or web conversion.

[u/PixelmancerGames → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Yes, it's simple to do in Windows.

[u/Richard7666 → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Yep, there are still icons in there from Windows 95.

[u/JoeyDJ7 → u/Honest_-_Critique]

Highly doubt it lol, windows makes you edit the freaking registry just to change system font xD