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.
I think you are making shit up.
I have been around a ton of cars and car people. Rice was never used to describe Asians.
A ford focus with a huge wing? Rice
A civic with a massive ground effects? Rice
A twin turbo Supra with nitro? Tuned.
The ethnicity of the driver or country of origin never came into it, East Coast, West Coast.
Is hoopty racist? No. Neither is rice.
Asian American into car culture here. Ricing and ricers are still derogatory and racist terms to this day. Do not mistake your ignorance of something that no one would bother to tell you for knowledge that it’s not true.