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This person has icons, but they are locked in a strict grid. Folders are color-coded. There is a column for "Work," a column for "Games," and a column for "To Sort." They right-click > "Sort by" > "Name" every Tuesday. They believe that a clean desktop leads to a clean mind. They are the architects of the digital world.

So the icon survives. It has migrated from chunky black-and-white pixels (the original Mac icons were 32x32!) to retina-quality, translucent vectors. But the behavior remains the same. place icon on desktop

You don't need to clean your desktop. But you can tame it. This person has icons, but they are locked in a strict grid