Linux users don't customize their systems all that much?!
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The person you replied to isn't entirely wrong, though.
"ricing" was a term in use in the car modding scene around the 80s and 90s especially, where among certain groups it was popular to modify Japanese import cars with kits and decals etc to mimic the look of the Japanese racing scene.
Some people considered these mods to be tacky and worthless because they usually tended to focus more on aesthetics than performance, purely tricking the car up visually with no other changes. Due to the Asian origin of these mods and the stereotype that Asians eat a lot.of rice, the cars were insultingly dubbed "rice burners" or " ricers" and the process of doing it "ricing"
It was intended 100% as an insult, basically meaning "Your car looks like shit because of all that Asian stuff you put on it"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
Like many insults of course, the insult is often "reclaimed" by the group it targets, who begin to use it between themselves in a favourable way, without any insult or negative connotation.
Ricing in the context of computers where people are styling, theming and "tricking out" their desktop almost certainly was borrowed from the car scene.
By this point there is basically no negative intent around the term at all, and especially not racist, but the place the term from was.
Ignore the braindead replies, this was really informative.
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If someone has a script to set up HyprLand or Sway with all the necessary components and dotfiles I'm all ears because I just don't have the patience to experiment myself so I'm still on GNOME.
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Is no one going to comment on the racial slur that is "ricing"?
please take your racism elsewhere, sir
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please take your racism elsewhere, sir
Exactly!
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If someone has a script to set up HyprLand or Sway with all the necessary components and dotfiles I'm all ears because I just don't have the patience to experiment myself so I'm still on GNOME.
JaKooLit has a hyprland script for most distros. If you want to use sway just install from your package manager not much else you need to do. If you wanna use proprietary nvidia drivers with sway you have to install sway-nvidia as well
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JaKooLit has a hyprland script for most distros. If you want to use sway just install from your package manager not much else you need to do. If you wanna use proprietary nvidia drivers with sway you have to install sway-nvidia as well
Just a warning if you're gonna use the JaKooLit the uninstall script CAN brick your DE
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Honestly KDE Plasma is pretty good for ne as it is. Sure a few settings here and there but not like with custom styles and scripts and such, so far
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Honestly KDE Plasma is pretty good for ne as it is. Sure a few settings here and there but not like with custom styles and scripts and such, so far
That's the thing people don't understand about ricing. It's not about features, not even about functionality. It's about aesthetics. Visually, but also how components interact and UX in general. It's like making art. It's emotional.
Maybe comparable to fancy mechanical keyboards. Am I more productive with mine? No, I could have grabbed any decent keyboard and it would have been the same. However, I like how mine looks, sounds, feels. It makes me happy. It is art I have created.
And that's why customize your system. Not because it's more efficient etc. Because it makes me feel goos like listening to music.
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it's like the words picnic and thanksgiving in their american-specific contexts, with both words no longer carry the connotation that implies lynching black people or giving thanks to god for genociding native americans; the present day version of both of these words, along with ricing, is neutral now.
The thing about picnics having their origin in lynchings is a myth.
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I've been using the same Arch/KDE box at work for the past 5 years. All default/stock. I have 1 system related issue every couple of months, usually a known issue i can quickly find the solution to. My "maintenance" routine is to update packages once per week. The less customization you do, the less obscure issues you will come across. Life is good.
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More customization = Higher chance something breaks.
Admittedly, chances are it's just something minor like your icons looking weird or transparency breaking, but it's still a distracting annoyance (for me at least).
I like that I can customize on the off chance that I need to fuck with something. But defaults have been getting better and better so i've done it less and less.
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If someone has a script to set up HyprLand or Sway with all the necessary components and dotfiles I'm all ears because I just don't have the patience to experiment myself so I'm still on GNOME.
Cosmic is really great if you want tiling similar to Hyprland or Sway without so much work. I used i3 then Hyprland for years, but have now been using Cosmic for months. Its the only DE that correctly does a tiling workflow imo, even considering extensions.
The problems with preconfigured configs is that they often aren't very dynamic, as in they don't adapt well to other PCs. Many of them will use stuff like CSS for widgets and bars that have stuff like specific pixel sizes, meaning you'll often gave to make changes.
Hyprland has some premade configurations on their wiki if you'd like to try them. I've never tried one, if you do, let me know how it goes!
Another thing to remember is a lot of the stuff you take for granted in a DE don't exist in a WM. Things like autostarts, envvars, background services, etc don't work the same. Hyprland devs created UWSM which will help with all of this.
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Is no one going to comment on the racial slur that is "ricing"?
It is important to understand the context of a word. Many words and phrases have racist origins, including many words you likely use without knowing. Meanings change, and that's not a bad thing. If people hurt by the term pushed for it to stop being used, I would of course respect this. I have never seen who could be targeted with the term be offended by its usage in the Linux community. Currently, the majority of people who talk about Linux customization call it "ricing", and none of them are doing it with ill intent.
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It is important to understand the context of a word. Many words and phrases have racist origins, including many words you likely use without knowing. Meanings change, and that's not a bad thing. If people hurt by the term pushed for it to stop being used, I would of course respect this. I have never seen who could be targeted with the term be offended by its usage in the Linux community. Currently, the majority of people who talk about Linux customization call it "ricing", and none of them are doing it with ill intent.
You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I've been a petrolhead all my life and the only context I've ever heard it used is to derogatorily describe modified Japanese cars. The people on the receiving end definitely took offense to it, because that was the intention.
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Yeah, nowdays DEs embedded customisation options cover so must of their default user-base needs that they are basically rice cookers.
And that is how open sauce works, it develops over time according to needs, not based on boardroom needs, monetization-focused panel research, and constant UI changed just for the sake of it.
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