what happened to Linux ricing? did people grow out of it?
>>108162470Theres still a few trannies doing it over in >>108130425But it's mostly poor 3rd worlders that cannot even afford a 1080p monitor.
>>108162470It got overrun by fags trying to make Linux look like winblows
>>108162748>>108162760for me was around the time when people started showing off pozzed/disney/marvel wallpapers
>>108162470well for one, the board was spammed and keeps being spammed by what is most likely paid actors trying to shift board culture away from linux and into jeetdowns or iFagoff course, clueless newfags fall for it, just because it is spammed 24/7
Pointless endeavorModern DEs don't make it easyIf you use a classic DE chances are you are using classic hardware so you are poorIf you're on newer hardware and you want to use a hardware feature you're stuck using one of those modern DEs (ridiculous)Other OSes than linux have tried as hard as possible to streamline the process by disabling everything that isn't "just change the fucking accent color and wallpaper and give it a break"Dark desktops are no longer cool, if anything they became the fucking default (and black means OLED theme now)People sell you KDE plasma is the ultimate thing in customization but when you get to it it has layers of bullshit, like all padding looking the same, most themes being the same 3, and everything else being a huge waste of time (kvantum)GNOME devs made a whole deal about libadwaita and not theming applications.XFCE and Cinnamon are stuck doing something fucking weird just so they can adhere to something modern.I think everything should have stopped at GTK2
>>108162470We rice OS 26 now.
>>108162470There used to be nothing to do on Linux besides endless ricing and distro-hopping. Now you can actually play games on it.
I've experienced the entire cycle. Started using Arch in 2006 in the pre-weeb/systemd days where it was mostly GNOME 2 and minor customization, then everybody suddenly wanted to rice their shit to beautiful but completely unusable minimal tiling systems, and now we're back to mostly stock setups again.
>>108162470>ubuntuget with the times grandpa
>>108162470Hopefully, we’ll get a cute wallpaper for Resolute Raccoon.
>>108163988https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#1-computer-operating-systemsanything not on that list is irrelevant, nobody cares what the unemployed are running on their toasters
>>108162470Because who the fuck cares about gay shit like ricing?We just want to use the OS and not fiddle around like it's a toy.
>>108164951And now we have Windows 11 Pro.
>>108164619>DebianWho the fuck still uses this ancient piece of shit?
>>108162470I riced one time and just use that forever
>>108165118based
>>108164619lots of plebs using so, no wonder it died
>>108162470Defaults look good now
>>108162470Ubuntu's visual identity is just so good out of the box.
>>108162470They rice their bodies now, if you know what I mean.
I just installed minimal fedora from a netinstall and got sway working. I'm starting to get into ricing, but it looks like I chose the worst time to get into things.
>>108166228You also chose the worst distro forricing
>>108166245What makes it the worst distro for ricing?
>>108166225i didn't know people drank horse piss to grow moobs. jeez
>>108166188>poop and purple>oh my god legendary visual style
kubuntu is superior to ubuntu and that awful tablet interface
>>108166251Far less ricing packages in the repos>>108166278It's a meme
>>108166392What ricing packages do other distros have that fedora doesn't? Since I'm so new to this, I don't really know what to look for.
ricing is for linux newfaggots, eventually you realize it doesn't matter and want to be more efficient and use the least resources possible.after 2 years on linux this is literally what i see when i turn on my pc. all the programs i use are either full screen on their own workspace or TUIs. my terminal (and tmux) and firefox open automatically on workspace 1 and 2 on login. steam opens on workspace 3, blender on workspace 4, godot on workspace 5 and that's it that's all i use. i don't need no stinking status bar. if i want to know the time or date i just look at my watch. if i want to know if it's cold or hot i just feel my body
>>108162470I want to use my computer to do shit, not just do computer
>>108162470I don't have the patience to go through days of autistic levels of customization, only to break the shit out of Linux, and potentially ruin the hardware on my PC which I currently cannot afford to replace. All I care about is getting Linux installed and making sure it works, themes and ricing are completely pointless outside of bragging rights on the desktop thread.I contributed some of my desktops on that thread just to show off a few things that could be done with Linux Mint, but that shithole of a thread has become hostile towards anyone who's new to Linux, which is why I no longer post anymore desktop screenshots on the desktop thread. So basically, I don't give two shits and a fuck about themes and ricing. All I care about is getting my PC up and running with Linux, because fuck microslop judeows 11, and fuck their copooplet AI spyware.
It's wild how Linux can do all this shit but I can't have an animated gif as my wallpaper. Something that Windows does natively.
>>108166225>6 foot
>>108166563>>108162760
>>108162470Anons started to post Windows and macOS zoomer desktops, until those threads basically are now 90% that normie shit. We original anons are posting in other website and not here.
>>1081666196 foot with her heels on, chud
>>108162470No, GTK3 and the GNOME retards killed it.
>>108166568https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaperhttps://codeberg.org/LGFae/awww
>>108166568You realize you can use ANY program as a wallpaper, right? I used to fucking use xscreensaver as my wallpaper ten years ago. Fun times.
>>108167820I said gif, not video.>WaylandLol. Lmao even.
>>108167908you can open a gif in mpv retard
>>108167908ffmpeg can play gif files and view images, which is what mpv (and by extension mpvpaper) uses as a backend.
>>108163721i think this is the actual answer. linux gaming only really became good in the past 8 years so those neets are finally able to waste their time on something else instead of taking screenshots all day
I am a NEET and don't even bother. Just remove panel 2 dock from Xfce, apply Adwaita-dark and call it a day.
>>108162470I don't know where the fuck you been bro the ricing community has never been stronger. We now have insanely powerful launchers (walker and vicinae) with plugin systems, neovim opened the door to vim customization wide open with lua, people are writing entire custom themes for Discord clients and websites, we have actually decent custom shells that can be created with libastal and quickshell, window managers now have fancy animations, niri brought scrolling tiles. The only thing that's been a bit dead is KDE/Gnome ricing, because go figure, everyone who does it well is now a developer and we use keyboard-driven workflows, tiling wms and terminal workflow. Prime and DHH with Omarchy converted an enormous amount of people. You have to have been living under a rock, ricing has legitimately never been better.
>>108162470haven't updated my rice in more the 3 years, once you find something you like you only change the colors from time to time
>>108164999I do.
It comes in phases. Most of the people who used to be here left. The new people are basing things of theire own imagination.
>>108162470I achieved the look and functionality I was after, so I stopped changing things. But I never would have been able to get to this point had I not put in time experimenting with different options.
>>108163482But you are still writing like a teenager so you can't be that old.
>>108170043let's see your pozzed wallpaper
>>108162470once you reach perfection, there is no reason to change.
>ricing>it's all wallpaper
>>108164999Me.
>>108163988>meme distro>this is somehow a flex
>>108166568KDE can do this natively btw
>>108162470Ricing can teach you a lot while also being fun if you're a beginner. I believe every Linux enthusiast should rice their system at least once in their lifetime.But the more you start to understand linux and use it productively, ricing starts getting in the way for a variety of reason, ranging from being a waste of time or being a suboptimal interface for the task at hand up even breaking compatibility.That said, I still have a small set of customizations I do in every machine I use (nothing radical with the most complex setting change being setting up zsh instead of bash).
>>108175504I stopped doing much ricing when I realized that sure I set everything up to be perfect for me, it wasted way more time than I was actually saving myself. Plus if I went to use any other computer I'd not be as comfy. Sort of like when I switched to dvorak keyboard layout because it lets you type faster, but then I realized that I was typing slower at work on qwerty than I used to once I got used to dvorak.I think defaults/changes you can easily make in settings without ricing gets you far enough these days that ricing just isn't really worth it.
>>108162470too many responsibilitieseven if i didnt have side projects i wouldnt have time to ricei remember when i was in high school, i was constantly installing new ROMs on my nexus 4 and then 5, posting constantly on xda and trying out new xposed modulesnow i use stock android on my pixel, no rootdo i miss it? having no responsibilities sure but i was more bored than anything, ricing was just a time-killerbut now im a linux admin so it wasnt all for nothing
the best DE is essentially dead
>>108162470Ricing is more popular than ever with wayland and stuff like quickshell enabling people to do whatever they want with relative ease
I used to be a ricer on Windows. I did it because Windows looked like shit without me ricing it, but now that I'm on Linux I don't really care to waste my time because this default KDE (and also default Gnome, but not the abomination from Ubuntu) is acceptable to me.
>>108162470tinkertranny
>>108162470but i didyou rice it once and hold onto itunless i suddenly develop adhd i have no reason to pick anything else
>>108166467This
>>108162470>ricingyeah you do grow out of it, now i just use vanilla gnome and get on with my day.
>>108162470I riced my laptop but some normie who hated AI took it and literally destroyed itThe shade you get for not being conformist triggers the neuron the FBI trained on them.
>>108162470I finished doing it because I'm mainly in emacs
>>108166563>minekekzased>retroarchzased>librewoowoke but zased
real reply is computer monitors got more than 720p pixel dencity now and those matrix bitmap fonts look like shit now. So eveyone moved to minimal vector, scalable to all screen sizes interfaces which actually require some honest to god professional design and thought put into them, so as to function and not make your eyes bleed.
>>108163547>Other OSes than linux have tried as hard as possible to streamline the process by disabling everything that isn't "just change the fucking accent color and wallpaper and give it a break"I really hate this.https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095722/https://www.wired.com/2002/10/the-mac-os-that-cant-be-tweaked/>Jobs was asked several times about reviving themes, but always responded, "Themes are dead."And then linux DEs started following the same playbook. I guess the fewer features the easier to manage for the devs, but it sucks.
>>108179411I think resolution and scaling were detrimental to this because people got lazy and looked for ways to simplify the process. My biggest issue is not really the abuse of flat or transparent blur shit everywhere but the lack of care about how things are supposed to look on screen at certain resolutions. Some things like proper padding are really overlooked and not easy to change.
Even if you fall for all the /g/ memes like a tiling window manager over bare xorg with no DE, you eventually settle into a comfortable setup that just works and you no longer want to keep changing it, this is when you grow out of desktop ricing and move on to more interesting things instead of maintaining your computer as a full time jobby.
>>108162470People are becoming NPCs, they only think about social media metrics and moneyBut this will change over time I hope
>>108163988>bloated garbageYour mere presence disgusts me
>>108162470>only people into ricing trooned out>slowly 42% themselves over time>???>no one ricing anymore
I remember ordering ubuntu and kubuntu cds just so I could try out cubez and wobbly windows.
>>108162470>ricingits larping
>>108166225this is the truth. tranny shit overtook ricing. why theme your desktop when you can chop off your cock and live a life of delusion, making other peoples lives miserable because you hate yourself.
>>108167180actual tinker tranny projecting on actual sane people that use their computers for work
>>108182511gnome developers are all trannies / commies who hated themes because it went against their tranny / commie vision of UI design. they wanted everyone to use THEIR tinker tranny design.preventing, you, the user, to have your own freedom.
>>108182534Developers have the right to force a specific style. Its their program.
>>108182102The Linux desktop environments were miles ahead of Windows at the time.
>>108183648WOBBLY WINDOWS AND WINDOWS BURNING ON FIRE WHEN CLOSED.
the older you get..
>>108182534>preventing>still thinking you can't theme GNOME in 2026works on my machine
>>108184012i started off with believing in ocd zero desktop icons but that's just gay, stuck up and constipated. the more mess, the more productive... ALMOST. there is a balance, and you're not toeing it;you are NOT productive.
>>108163988i recognize btop, chrome(or Firefox?), but i don't recognize the terminal, xfetch program or file manager
>>108185432GNOME devs are like that>Is that... an extra icon in my panel? My desktop has an icon on it?>That's it, I'm too distracted to work, this is literal hell
>>108186406chromium, kitty, fastfetch, yazi
>/g/ doesn't even rice linux anymore because it takes more effort than spamming /pol/ posts about race, roleplaying as indians, and calling everyone a trannySad.
