I changed the font size in Linux Mint. Does that count?

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 😅

5 hours? ... You have much to learn, padawan.

You guys set a different wallpaper?

What does ricing mean in this context?

I keep telling myself I’m 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.

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

Dumb question: What exactly is "ricing"? I'd also be curious to learn about the etymology of that term...

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.

I've never bothered because less than 1% of my time I'm looking at the sys UI, let alone the desktop.

CachyOS has been great if anyone is looking for an arch based distro that's preconfigured for gaming out of the box.

Default Plasma is just good.

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.

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.

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!

I got out of customizing everything once I started flashing different ROMs on my first smartphone, which was the Verizon Thunderbolt

After having three or four different operating systems on in one week, it became so obvious how much time I was wasting on that stuff lol