I hide all my apps and so my home screen is completely blank, save for the wallpaper. On my Linux machines there are no icons on the desktop (except I added a calendar applet to my laptop, and the icon for my external drive appears when I plug it in). I can breathe. It’s lovely.

I once saw a colleague at a work event who had a home screen completely full of icons that, when more closely inspected, were actually stacks of icons layered on top of one another. I was so anxious just looking at it.