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  • vii@programming.dev
    3·
    6 hours ago

    When I have discovered Linux, I did all the ricing with Compiz, until I actually had to get productive …

  • andioop@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    My UI could be prettier but it is not distractingly bad or ugly. Just changed my wallpaper and that’s probably the only visual customization I’ll do.

  • 01011
    4·
    14 hours ago

    Most people just something that works and isn’t cluttered.

    I might spend 30 minutes after a distro install getting things right, once I have it set up I don’t tinker with it much.

  • horrorslice@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    I try to choose a distro that looks aesthetically pleasing out of the box so I don’t have to do any of that.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    Turns out most people just want a functioning operating system and don’t need a 4d-chess mosaic of self-expression.

    • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 day ago

      Hey, I changed my desktop background and color theme… but yes, customization for me is copying all my scripts to ~/bin and set a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal. I’m-old-Gandalf-meme around here

      edit: yes, .vimrc as well

  • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I find it’s just a lot of effort to go through visual customization for very little benefit, I have spent more time creating rootless podman images for certain apps, custom scripts, keybinds etc.

    What I mean to say is there’s likely many people who customize functionality of their systems one way or another — without ever touching the visual side of things much beside maybe changing the font or turning dark mode on.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    28·
    1 day ago

    I think it’s more complicated that that.

    I spent a fair amount of time getting my system set up the way I like it, with colors, fonts, status bars. But once it was set up, I don’t mess with it much. So doors that mean I spend a lot of time ricing, or not?

    I spent far more time ricing it at the start than you’d do on Windows or Mac. But since they, almost none.

    So, on the one hand, yes, we rice a lot compared to other OS users; on the other, hardly any time.

    Then you get people who’s hobby it is to rice, and they probably would alone drop the scale to “ricing a lot,” but I don’t think they’re representative.