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A question for GNOME/KDE users (piefed.world)
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For people who already tried both, what's the reason you're sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?

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[-] natecox@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Really wish we would drop "ricing" from the vernacular.

[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

My bad (seriously). What's the slang now to "spend ~~hours~~ years fiddling with a zillion parameters so my desktop is exactly like I want it for the next 5 minutes"?

[-] natecox@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

It's not a you problem, it's just a bit of casual racism that slipped through the cracks; insidious because most people don't even realize it's a problem.

We called it theming before that other term got popular, I never saw a reason to stop.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most people have. The specific bike/car subculture isn't really a thing any more so the term is gone too. It's only still hanging on in older gentoo users.

[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Oops, probably shows (again) my age. Is because "ricing" was ethnic something ?

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