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[GNOME] My first rice
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OS: Arch Linux
Gnome Theme: Orchis GTK
Icon Theme: ePapirus-Dark
Terminal Emulator: kitty
Terminal Theme: Catppuccin with some changes
GNOME Extensions: Dash to Dock, DING, Extension List, User Themes, Places Status Indicator, Removable Drive Menu
I've just been lurking and enjoying the pretty themes, but I find myself finally needing to ask: why is it called rice?
Unfortunately, racism.
It's a term from the car-modding scene. "Rice burner" was a pejorative term for badly-customized imported Japanese cars with more flashy looks than performance upgrades. It then came to just mean "heavily visually modified", and installing such mods was called "ricing"