Can we please stop calling it "ricing"? The term is pretty loaded.
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Lived through the 90s when the import car scene was huge. The term ricing back then was used when referring to asians who modified their cars, as a pejorative.
It really bummed me out to see it creep into the Linux community. Tried voicing displeasure back when I used Reddit and got blasted with downvotes and really distasteful comments, felt like I was alone in this feeling. Thanks, from some random Asian Linux user.
For what it's worth I have only ever heard the term used to describe the Linux thing. So for me that is the only meaning.
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I'm kinda surprised that people don't say modding
i personally call it "theming" or "customizing" since these are quite descriptive. pretty sure "modding" is more often used in the context of gaming
Theming seems more relevant and specific than modding/customizing👍
because it isn't modding it's just aesthetic changes. that is why it is called "ricing", because on the car community just changing the looks is considered trash tuning.
There’s a point where it goes from basic theming to full blown ricing. I think OP is trying to jump off the deep end.
Is the concern the connection to "rice racers" japenese import cars? or the term when you rice potatoes or cauliflower through a ricing device, making it into tiny parts?
Horribly offensive term. Webster's Dictionary defines ricing as a tiling window manger with 64px gaps, minimalist Naruto/anime background, useless bouncing bar EQ meter, entire window dedicated to song lyrics, obnoxious monospace fonts, nonsensical colors, task bar showing time/date/IP+MAC address/GPS coords/moon phase/crop yield/barometric pressure, and a Vim buffer with Rust's "hello world" tutorial.
To clarify for those who come after: It's quite blatantly the first one. You're tricking your desktop out as is stereotypical of the cars you mentioned.
Wasn't sure, some people see ricing as going into every tiny detail like grains of rice...but being old the first one is the first reference I heard.
It's possible that the majority of people weren't aware of the first one when they started using it, but they don't have an excuse if they continue to use it now.
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Don't fall for the tiling managers, I know they look pretty but they'll sink all your time and you'll never be satisfied. Trust me I've been there.
Personally I hate tiling, I just want those cool closing and opening animations
If you use KDE, look for the "TV Glitch [burn-my-windows]" opening and closing animation. It's a default setting in the KDE Settings > Workspace behavior > Desktop effects > Window open/close animation section. It's really good in my opinion, especially if you tinker with the open/close timing to make it a little more crisp.
Idk I love hyprland. Maybe it’s not for everyone but there is no harm trying :)
Didn't mean no offence. If it works for you, great! But personally I got too into customisations and missed a lot of work which was the whole actual point, " productivity" lol. But damn did my setup look slick that week.
Partially true.. I've been using i3 for roughly 8 years so setup and usage is pretty dang quick these days. I'd say it's worth it if tiling piques your interest.
Took me a few goes here and there but now I love my minimal tiling setup. Never really got it but just played with them here and there out of curiosity. Last time I tried it something clicked for me and now I've no desire to go back.
Ain't that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don't have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.
Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop
Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling
The easiest step into this world is KDE. It has a store for users to share global themes, color themes, even sddm animations.
You can use kwin rules to send certain apps to certain desktops, start shaded, all sorts of fun stuff.
And then you can throw a tiling manager on top of that. If you want to use the control panel, you can install bismuth. If you're comfortable editing text files, awesome or i3 (but I have yet to go that far).
If you really want to go for it, hyperland looks incredible, but it is a lot of up front work.
This Lemmy community is a pretty good resource for inspiration, and sometimes you can snag animation or icon sources from the descriptions or comments. It's not super in depth on the how to end of it though.
Time to switch to Gentoo or Funtoo? That’s when you really start putting more pep in your step
You'll want to decide on a desktop environment or window manager (or compositor). That'll be the biggest determining factor of what things will look like. From there, you'll want to either read the manual or arch wiki on how to customize the different aspects of it.
If you decide you want a tiling window manager, Hyprland is nice since you mentioned you wanted animations. But it's only recommended on rolling release distros at the moment. It also might not work well with Nvidia.
What kind of "app behaviour" customizations are you wanting to do? That sounds like it would be app-specific. My main form of app customization is to find ways to change the colour scheme (to fit everything else), and also to change the keybindings (I like using vim-like key bindings whenever reasonable)