I do change the background image every now and then.
Customizing my development setup is enough for me.
I try to choose a distro that looks aesthetically pleasing out of the box so I don’t have to do any of that.
Customized bling bling PCs are for kids. Like Windows.
It was fun for a while. But now I just want a stable system.
Gnome with Dash to Panel and ArcMenu
Good nuf
It’s amazing how much I agree with (almost) every response to this post (so far).
I find it’s just a lot of effort to go through visual customization for very little benefit, I have spent more time creating rootless podman images for certain apps, custom scripts, keybinds etc.
What I mean to say is there’s likely many people who customize functionality of their systems one way or another — without ever touching the visual side of things much beside maybe changing the font or turning dark mode on.
Turns out most people just want a functioning operating system and don’t need a 4d-chess mosaic of self-expression.
Libadwaita looks pretty great 🤷
I set dark mode, choose a wallpaper, change a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and I’m done.
I think it’s more complicated that that.
I spent a fair amount of time getting my system set up the way I like it, with colors, fonts, status bars. But once it was set up, I don’t mess with it much. So doors that mean I spend a lot of time ricing, or not?
I spent far more time ricing it at the start than you’d do on Windows or Mac. But since they, almost none.
So, on the one hand, yes, we rice a lot compared to other OS users; on the other, hardly any time.
Then you get people who’s hobby it is to rice, and they probably would alone drop the scale to “ricing a lot,” but I don’t think they’re representative.
Its unfair that breeze is such a dam clean looking theme.
I used to play with compiz fusion a long time ago. After breaking so many systems I eventually just stuck with stock.
Not visually, at least. But especially on bare WMs, custom scripts and hotkeys are the way to go.
