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Hi, i'm kinda new to ricing but i will try to answer it:
- Yes, i'm using pywal for colorscheme sometimes
- Looks up for documentation of the program that i want to customize (i.e: neovim, qtile, etc)
- Github (and also toss everything out because i'm bored, don't do what i did)
- Depends. If it a minimal distro (btw), yes. If it a complete distro, i will try to fiddle around first with the default config they have. Then customize the hell out of it I hope this helps :)
I've set up a bunch of config files on my GitHub, so I clone the repo into my distro and symlink it to set up a bunch of stuff. I've also written a script that can install all my programs by reading through a text file. It's helpful to get up and running quickly
Why 'Ricing'? I tried searching but could only find explanations of the word related to cars
It’s customizing and souping up your desktop to look cool, like car ricing is for souping up your car.
Commonly used to refer to poorly modified Hondas and/or other imports.
Kinda funny they use that word here.
No idea honestly, it's the word that the community used back in the subreddit. I think it is exactly a reference to its use in the car world, though
Modified cars, common in Asia, are called rice burners. Hence the word ricing
My answers to your questions in order:
- No.
- No workflow.
- I have periodic backups of the entire system, but I do not organize my configs or anything like that.
- I only customize the install on my laptop and it is over time, I do not install different distros on it, just the same install ever since I got it. On any other install I usually use the defaults.
I'm curious, what distro do you have on your laptop?
Its the overused, bleeding edge one (you know what i meant). Prob will switch to endeavouros/nix though
Alpine Linux
I'm not a unix pornograph pro by any means, but I usually do things by hand. If I want an automation, I will make it by hand.
I don't have a workflow, as I don't usually set out to "make something". It's just that I want my desktop to show/look/do things a certain way and I will make it do that, and pile it on top of all the other times I've done this.
No backups but I am generally terrible at keeping backups.
I generally don't distro hop. When I get a new system I try to port some things that have become integral to my use of any system, and I generally end up with a different config over time by doing step 2 on that system.
- Go through available documentation and look at other people's configs. Partly learning from, partly blatant ripping.
- nix + git!
- I get essentials out of the way:
- basic window/workspace management keybinds
- status bar with time, workspaces, and volume display
then add everything else i want later.
- I don't use any tools to generate config & color schemes but I use Gradience to generate css for adw-gtk3 & libadwaita
- Setup WM/compositor, bar & terminal first
- I upload some of my rices to a GitHub repository
- Immediately if it's minimal distro