Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.
But you definitely shouldn’t use racist slang to refer to the process.
To be clear, I didn’t know the origin of the term ‘ricing’ until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it’s from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.
After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.
Yeah, I had absolutely no idea what “ricing” was even supposed to mean, like it doesn’t look like it’s short for anything, doesn’t seem like an acronym for anything, it’s not analogous or synonymous with anything, I can’t see how “rice” is supposed to be metaphorical at all to cool looking linux desktops, and it’s not an entirely new word like “rizz” or “yeet”
So by all accounts it’s an absolutely unfitting word for what it’s describing
Knowing the racist history of the term now, yeah that makes sense and yeah I vote we move to an objectively better term
Idk what tho, maybe “decore” cuz it actually describes that the focus is the look, that the DE is the Core of the setup, and sounds cooler than “rice”
“Decore” and “Decorizing” is probably the terms I’m personally gonna use atleast
Edit: unless I find a better term, I came up with this one on the stop
The term rice comes from Japanese culture of modding cars aesthetically. Basically getting a basic normal car and making it look cool.
And if we go even further back, not many people know this but rice is actually food.