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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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Default Plasma is just good.
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You guys set a different wallpaper?
Honestly, usually the only thing I HAVE to change. Idk why all the default distro wallpapers suck
They do don't they.
It's my biggest complaint about Linux, and on-boarding new users.
The last thing a new user should see is some janky ass looking wallpaper.
I think ElementaryOS and maybe Zorin were the only two that had clean looking OOTB theme and wallpaper.
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Dumb question: What exactly is "ricing"? I'd also be curious to learn about the etymology of that term...
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.
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Incorrect, or dumb use of a term originating from modifying Japanese car to street racing, also racist term.
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I keep telling myself Iβm 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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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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CachyOS has been great if anyone is looking for an arch based distro that's preconfigured for gaming out of the box.
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
I agree that KDE is better for newcomers. I'll never understand why the newbie-friendly distros tend to favor GNOME.
It's a lowest common denominator kinda issue, methinks. Gnome is chasing it's own tail trying to create a single UI that will please everyone, plus have it simple to use and both similar enough yet distinct enough to/from Windows/Mac experiences. It's a noble enough goal - but honestly strikes me as well impossible.
KDE gives you a barely updated Win95 era desktop and then becomes a tinkerer's paradise - whenever there was two or more options, they focused on making each available, but neither becomes the default.
Before Ubuntu existed, most distros aimed at newcomers shipped with KDE as the default. I'm not sure why Ubuntu went with GNOME as the default, but since Ubuntu came out, everything shifted to GNOME.
GNOME is definitely not going for a single UI that will please everyone. They're going for a UI that you WILL use THEIR way, or else. And they WILL break any extensions you use within the next release or two. Which is an odd design philosophy for a desktop for an OS aimed at people who like to tweak.
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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 spend 3 days ricing my desktop and I did not finish. I've now been sitting with the ugliest half riced desktop for 6 months. I decided to go with a light theme in beige and its.. not good.
You made your bed, and have been laying in it. A man of virtue.
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wonder what eventually makes everyone ragequit on the ricing part lol
for me? it was the battery management and suspend/hibernate stuff. You need to do a lot of weird file configs to get them working.
I riced i3wm, dwm and even exwm and suspend/hibernate problem would pop up now and then.
On a full DE? Shit just works.
I do miss ricing though. Especially window managers, I can just git clone my dotfiles and have everything setup in seconds.
The first time you do a presentation and forget how to add an external display, that was what made me stick with a full DE.
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Honestly I even get rid of the taskbar too. I'll float the system tray at approximately the same place but either let it hide behind everything or fill the space above it with a specific window (mirrored phone screen) with fixed size. Now that I'm typing it out though, I'm going to investigate auto-hiding it until a keybind reveals it in front of all windows.
I switch programs exclusively with alt+tab regardless and KDE's launcher fulfills the super-menu functionality. I want a fresh session login to open to just my wallpaper. No icons, no task bar, no tray, nothing. An anti-rizz if you will.
I like the aesthetic and see it as a (tongue-in-cheek) method of security by obfuscation. I pair that with completely blank keycaps on my keyboard and suddenly 99% of the population doesn't know how to interact with my machine.
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