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.
The word has not changed that much in common use (as far as it gets common at all). Ricing your car still has derogatory undertones, and even if you aren’t aware, it still has racist undertones as well if you think about it at all. Just because you aren’t aware if it doesn’t mean the affected people aren’t. If you said ricing in this context around me, I’d assume you’re ignorant at best, and deliberately racist and trying to offend me at worst