If I understand it right:

Bardbarian

Bard = he’s got game

(Bar)barian = he’s still not very bright (adding a handful of chicks you wanna flirt with to a single chat…yeah, not a good idea lol)

Wouldn’t call it harder, exactly (then again, I’m most familiar with XFCE, so kinda biased here lol) since most everything is grouped together either in the settings menu or panel prefrences, and you can just drag and drop whatever you downloaded from xfce look to the desktop apperance and icon list to add them to spice up your desktop, whereas in KDE, which I love, don’t get me wrong. It’s a tinkerer’s paradise, the settings for X, Y, and Z are kinda all over the place

It depends on your instance I believe. I’m on Lemmy.ml, and while it does let me upload on posts, I gotta brute force it at times

Instead of laugh, I’ll clap because it looks pretty good. We all start somewhere, and this ain’t bad at all

Harder, how? If ya don’t mind me asking?

Ah, MATE. The one DE I’ve never actually tried in my Distrohopping days for whatever reason (there was nothing wrong with it or anything, i just never got around to it before falling in love with XFCE). I’ll take your word for it. Heck, maybe I’ll tweak this to resemble MATE more if it’s really “pretty much Gnome 2”

Guessing because the one’s who downvoted saw this as “low effort” that doesn’t tell them anything, really. (There’s no mention of any DE, or what they did to customize it…it’s just the terminal and a request for a wallpaper, really). FWIW, I can see it’s Uwuntu (i think…) would be nice to see the whole desktop tho

Btw, OP, or really, anyone, how’d you upload the image? Everytime I’ve tried it it says the image is too large.

At the risk of asking a stupid question: is there a viable alt?

I personally don’t see it as racist in the context it’s used (to me, context and how something is used is everything), then again, when I first heard the term a few years back, it was in the context of an acronym: Racing Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. Nothing racist about that, I mean…I see several cars owners, racing or otherwise, tricking their rides up with spoilers or annoying loud exhausts all the time. All ethnicities, not just strictly asian. It might have come from a racist thing*, and if it did, that doesn’t mean that that’s what has to define it for all time.

I also agree with tables; you can’t exactly choose a “nicer” alternative for something everytime a couple of people get offended by a word. It’s just not feasible, IMO. IDK, I was raised with the mindset of: There’s going to be people in life that are going to take offense to something you do or say even if you didn’t mean to offend in the slightest.

*it could have, but I’m not entirely sure personally. I checked out the wiki article you linked, and find it odd that when originally looked up the term RICE on wikipedia, there was no racist conotations at all (and i know this because i often used to refer to that article when i explained what the acronym meant to others), or if there were, it was a footnote, but now it’s front and center. Not saying you’re wrong and this is some revisionist piece at all, just noticing that, is all. Like I said, this very well could be the original meaning.