Ask HN: Best Source for Desktop Backgrounds

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  • go-unsplash

    Go Client for the Unsplash API

    I really used to like https://interfacelift.com, but there hasn't been consistent uploads in about 2 years, though there are still a lot of great wallpapers on that site.

    The best in the past couple years has definitely been https://unsplash.com .

  • bing-wallpaper

    Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu). (by thejandroman)

    As mentioned by others, the daily wallpapers supplied by bing are very nice. They aren’t 4k, but the 1080p images still look good on my 4k monitors.

    There are a number of scripts out there which download the ‘picture of the day’ and store it locally. You can then set your computer to scroll through these images every so often. Here’s the one I use: https://github.com/thejandroman/bing-wallpaper

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  • muzei

    Muzei Live Wallpaper for Android

    I use https://muzei.co/ on my phone and I wrote a script to fetch the today picture on my desktop

  • variety

    Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems

    I use [1] variety which allows you to use, Flickr, Sub-Reddit's and other sites as download sources for backgrounds.

    [1] https://github.com/varietywalls/variety

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