This repository contains all of the Wallpapers that I regularly use on all of my systems (and phones). These wallpapers are usually actively in use in videos from my YouTube Channel, so if you're visiting this repo from there, thanks for watching, and I hope you can find what you're looking for.
The reason these wallpapers are in a Git Repo, rather than a zip file on my website, is so that they can be easily downloaded as part of an installation script, or just quickly on the command line -- to that end, a simple git clone https://github.com/makccr/wallpapers, will do the trick. But as the years go on, and I'm committing more and more changes to the repo, that will become increasingly unfeasible (and already is a pain in the ass) Every commit in this repo, is not, a few lines of code, but a multi-megabyte image. As such, my recommendation is to instead use:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/makccr/wallpapers
This will download only the most recent branch of wallpapers, giving you access to all the images that can be browsed on the current version of this repo; but will not download the entire history of wallpapers.
Additionally the structure of this folder might seem odd. After cloning, the folder structure will be something like: ~/XMediaFolder/wallpapers/wallpapers/Xcollection/. This seems stupid I know, but it's important, when using this repo with a wallpaper setter like feh, or wal. Here we can run something like feh -r to recursively search the folder, and pick a random background from any of the collections. However, the standard /wallpapers folder also contains the .git directory, leaving feh trying to set git files as wallpapers. Therefore we have to bury our wallpapers one layer deeper: wallpapers/wallpapers/Xcollection.
All of these images use the JPG format, spelled as .jpg, not .jpeg for consistency. This is just to save on the file size. I find that I don't usually notice the difference between a JPG and a PNG or other higher quality image format (in the context of a wallpaper), and JPG files have significantly smaller file size; so I hope you see what I'm getting at.
All of the wallpapers also have a minimum resolution of 1080p; and I'm slowly replacing the lower resolution wallpapers with 4K equivalents, or removing them entirely. But, for the time being, if you're using a display with a resolution higher than 1080p you might be careful just picking any image at random.
It also may be relevant to note that this library includes wallpapers intended for use on mobile (portrait) & desktop (landscape) layouts. These images aren't organized in any specific way, but the largest majority of images should also be of a high enough resolution that they can be used with either type of layout without any noticeable degradation. That being said, I do primarily work on a desktop or a laptop; so the majority of the images are collected with that in mind. There are some images that were collected specifically for use on a phone, and are in the proper orientation, but those are few and far between. This is a collection of images for use primarily on old school, you know... computers!