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.

    • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      The term is a Reddit-ism that should die with Reddit.

      • xwinman, which dates to the last millennium, uses the terms “styles” and “setups”
      • boxshots.org is a site from around the turn of the century when *box style window managers were all the rage, uses the term “shots” as short for screenshots
      • linuxquestions.org and daemonforums.org use the terms, “mods,” “styles,” “themes,” “customizations,” and “setups”