The way I understand it, it’s specifically not to gain more speed, but completely focused on aesthetics. Themes, background, and other touches to make it look pretty, and perhaps some UX aspects too.
Isn’t ricing when you make a car look fast when it’s actually just a piece of shit? That’s how I’ve always heard it used until linux nerds started applying it to their GUI systems.
That’s my understanding. Racist shit. Back when I was super into classic cars and muscle/pony shit, I had a friend say “I don’t know about you, but I like my cars to run on gas, not rice.”
As I understand it, ricing a machine is to excessively modify it to achieve more speed, users of Gentoo being the origina ricers in the Linux world.
The term itself has dubious and arguably racist origins, in the world of modification of Japanese cars for street racing.
The way I understand it, it’s specifically not to gain more speed, but completely focused on aesthetics. Themes, background, and other touches to make it look pretty, and perhaps some UX aspects too.
Isn’t ricing when you make a car look fast when it’s actually just a piece of shit? That’s how I’ve always heard it used until linux nerds started applying it to their GUI systems.
I thought ricing was when asian street food vendors would make their small food carts all fancy looking?
I thought that it came from people buying cars from Japan and then modifying them both for more horsepower and to look cool?
That’s my understanding. Racist shit. Back when I was super into classic cars and muscle/pony shit, I had a friend say “I don’t know about you, but I like my cars to run on gas, not rice.”