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spend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OS
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I used to be like that, nowadays I just choose a distro that comes with a DE I like out of the box, switch to dark mode, set a wallpaper and call it a day.
I do the same but I also make sure the panel's on the top edge of the screen
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It's different to work with than just about any Linux distro out there, but works kinda well with NixOS. Sure it's different than all the other Linux distros and prob has a steeper learning curve as well - but once you get into it you'll never have to reinstall again, you can apply any config with 1 command, revert to earlier build-versions if a change would break the system. Great stuff!
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Dumb question: What exactly is "ricing"? I'd also be curious to learn about the etymology of that term...
Incorrect, or dumb use of a term originating from modifying Japanese car to street racing, also racist term.
Occasionally people with backronym it as "race inspired cosmetic enhancements" so they can continue saying it with plausible deniability
That's animal cruelty
you know the Fast and the Furious movies? at least the original 2 or 3, those cars were all tricked out with neon lights, decals, nitros, custom exhaust, all that? most of those cars were Japanese cars that were heavily modified. Basically it was a derogetory term for modifying a piece of shit car to look good, Especally if it was a Japanese car. you slap a body kit on it, neon lights, slap in some bucket seats, switch out the exhaust, but you dont' touch the engine. that's a "Ricer" it's not a good thing in that specific car culture.
So for whatever reason someone at some point was modifying their Desktop Environment or Window Manager with neon borders and all that and decided to call it a Rice. You're essentially modifying your OS without touching the "engine" so to speak. You're just slapping a body kit, neon lights, some bucket seats etc onto your operating system.
Read the same in the past. If I remember correctly, someone added "Ricer" and "Rice" is racism, too.
yeah some consider it a racist term because it originally applied specifically to Japanese Cars. i.e. Asian cars, Asians like eating Rice, POS modified Car isn't a "Racer" it's a "Ricer".
I once had to explain to my father why calling Asian sport bikes "rice rockets" is racist. He didn't get it and went on to talk about how he got "gyped" by a guy trying to sell him one when he was in his 30s.
It takes a lot of introspection and work to get past culturally ingrained bigotry. I was a teenager in the 90s. Back then, and still through the 2000's via internet culture, everyone and everything was a "fag". I didn't recognize that it was a problem until way later than I should have, and I still almost say it sometimes. I don't have any problem with gay people. It's just a weird form of muscle memory. People don't understand that listeners don't know what their intentions are. They just know what you said. You gotta internalize that fact before you can change your language.
It's one of those things, is it worse that it's used without understanding that it was initially a racist term?
Good question. It was the late 90s so it wasn't like we were living in Jim Crow but there was no where near the same amount of recognition of the difficulties people of color face like we see now. He never intentionally racist. On the contrary, I do remember him spending a night in the drunk tank after got into a parking lot brawl between him and Puerto Rican friends and some assholes who called them a bunch of slurs.
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Excessively modifying your system, most commonly in how it looks, spending dozens of hours making it look just right.
Not sure of etymology
The etymology is from a racist street racing term. In the street racing scene, the garishly over-done modifications (often combined with anime wraps) were popular in parts of Asia. So those styles of cars were referred to as โrice burnersโ when Asian drivers inevitably ended up at car meets. And modifying the car in such a way was called โricingโ it. As in, Asians eat a lot of rice, and it looks like an Asian modified that car.
Thatโs pretty much it. Thatโs the etymology. Some people will try to claim that โRICEโ is actually an acronym. But thatโs a common lie, to allow those people to continue using the racist term without feeling guilty. The term โrice burnerโ existed long before the backronym did. And somehow, the term eventually found its way into the Linux world. And Linux fanboys will screech about how itโs not a racist term, but it is.
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CachyOS has been great if anyone is looking for an arch based distro that's preconfigured for gaming out of the box.
CachyOS and Bazzite are perfect for gaming out of the box
Agree 100%. My only hesitation with bazzite is fedora's insistence that 32bit needs to go. Once that support ends, bazzite is on a death clock. Otherwise I'd say bazzite over cachy.
I used to skin Windows XP and loved custom icon packs for OS X. Today I run Gnome with the bare minimum quality of life extensions.
I was going to say I don't have time to mess around with that shit, and then remembered I have spent a bunch of time curating my dotfiles and the actual OS I run is a Bootc image I build nightly on my self hosted Forgejo instance. I may actually have too much time on my hands ๐
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I changed the font size in Linux Mint. Does that count?
Are you the hacker we keep reading about in the newspaper?
Yes. My name is 4chan.
You guys set a different wallpaper?
Honestly, usually the only thing I HAVE to change. Idk why all the default distro wallpapers suck
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XFCE + Compiz was 100% worth the effort of doing it once and then being able to just copy to a new device.
Waiting for XFCE to complete their Wayland transition, and I'm gonna upgrade to Wayfire.
That being said, yeah I give KDE to basically everyone else new to Linux lol
Oh man, old school Compiz with the wobbly windows and a million other tricks absolutely blew my mind. Magic rainbow spark particles when I minimize a window? Yes please! Fire trail that follows the cursor? No problem!
I agree that KDE is better for newcomers. I'll never understand why the newbie-friendly distros tend to favor GNOME.
Same experience, thought desktop on linux was behind because I started on Ubuntu with GNOME.
Luckily tried XFCE on someone's Debian install and realized GNOME just kinda sucked.
Even GNOME 2 was a pretty standard DE, 3 and 40+ just took a weird nosedive where they enforced their idea of the perfect DE, despite it breaking a ton of rules about good UX and removing a bunch of former features.
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I keep telling myself Iโm gonna rice out my setup. That plasma is just a placeholder. But as months have become years I have started to question the value in it.
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What does ricing mean in this context?
RICE is a post-hoc acronym (backronym) meaning Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. Its from car communities.
It used to be a racist term referring to the modification of JDM vehicles, hence the post-hoc change to the definition. Its a word that came into common parlance without folks completely knowing it was racist.
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