I like the post, but I was surprised with this use as well, I thought it was an anachronism at this point in any context. I remember it being used to refer to "rice rockets" or modded cars in the late 90s, early 2000s, but it fell out of use in any circles I'm in by then, but it must have survived in some community. It'll probably be hard to get an honest answer without doing your own research since it's been (I think reasonably) labeled as derogatory here, as those using it may not be aware/think of it as such.
I hear the term “ricer” fairly often when someone refers to a two-door honda with a comical spoiler and fat fenders, for example. Definitely has overlap with the rally car body aesthetic. It’s simultaneously a derogatory term and a badge of honor worn by the ricer subculture.
I did not know the etymology or literal meaning of the term, though. I appended my vocabulary list after reading this.
I hadn't heard of this until someone linked me to a thread on /g/ years back. I honestly think the crossover between desktop screenshot threads and that board is quite large, so I'm not surprised that their lingo has caught on. I really wish there was some alternative term that captured the sentiment of superfluous customization without the racial connotations.
Japanese cars were referred to as Rice Burners, and the term "Riced up" came up alongside for modded cars, maybe this became widespread around the start of the Fast and Furious franchise
When I was in highschool, I was really into this and spent a lot of time building custom rainmeter skins. Total waste of time. I never look at my desktop since I'm usually more interested in some window that's open. I turn off my desktop icons still because my Desktop folder is just a dumping ground.
I think it heavily depends on the kind of work you're doing.
I've used i3wm for the last 4 years, and it's very helpful for when you have a bunch of short-lived windows (like terminals) or you frequently switch between two different sets of windows (like docs/code, or code/web-app).
I could not care less how popular tiling it is. What I care about is how good it is for my use case.
If tiling is useful or not really depends on your use case and your workflow. I would say that for you tiling does not make a better experience because your workflow and your needs are different. In my workflow and use case tiling is a better, and much more functional approach, compared to anything else I tried so far, including MacOS. I do not care about ricing, I use i3 with the stock i3-bar. I rarely see my wallpaper since all of my screen is occupied by programs I need to get my work done. I use rofi/fzf/ripgrep integrated in i3, Emacs and my terminal emulator. All of my configuration is tailored so I can automatize my workflow as much as possible. Tiling, in my specific case with i3, glues everything together very nicely. I tried to replicate the same thing in Gnome-shell and it was just clunky.
Anyway, the good thing is that in GNU/Linux you can choose how to shape your user experience. Tiling is just one of the ways you can do that.
I'm never sure if rice is racist. It feels kinda like it is... But supposedly everyone agrees it means Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements? I try to avoid saying it.
I wish there was a desktop environment design for that kind of aesthetics, but with KDE/Cinammon style functionality. I'm kind of surprised the whole desktop hasn't become a browser by now.
I'd probably totally be into this if it was as easy as web design, but the CSS needed to theme Cinnamon is a bit complicated, and it doesn't seem that you have full access to all CSS features.
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 39.9 ms ] thread"Modding" a car or a PC has always been a thing. Which is what I would call either item when altering it's aesthetics.
I did not know the etymology or literal meaning of the term, though. I appended my vocabulary list after reading this.
I've used i3wm for the last 4 years, and it's very helpful for when you have a bunch of short-lived windows (like terminals) or you frequently switch between two different sets of windows (like docs/code, or code/web-app).
If tiling is useful or not really depends on your use case and your workflow. I would say that for you tiling does not make a better experience because your workflow and your needs are different. In my workflow and use case tiling is a better, and much more functional approach, compared to anything else I tried so far, including MacOS. I do not care about ricing, I use i3 with the stock i3-bar. I rarely see my wallpaper since all of my screen is occupied by programs I need to get my work done. I use rofi/fzf/ripgrep integrated in i3, Emacs and my terminal emulator. All of my configuration is tailored so I can automatize my workflow as much as possible. Tiling, in my specific case with i3, glues everything together very nicely. I tried to replicate the same thing in Gnome-shell and it was just clunky.
Anyway, the good thing is that in GNU/Linux you can choose how to shape your user experience. Tiling is just one of the ways you can do that.
I wish there was a desktop environment design for that kind of aesthetics, but with KDE/Cinammon style functionality. I'm kind of surprised the whole desktop hasn't become a browser by now.
I'd probably totally be into this if it was as easy as web design, but the CSS needed to theme Cinnamon is a bit complicated, and it doesn't seem that you have full access to all CSS features.