What Is Ricing

Week 1. The customised desktop, taken seriously.

Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements

The term was an insult first, aimed at cheap body kits on cheaper cars. The desktop borrowed it, kept the irony, and made it a badge.

Three claims for the semester

  • the desktop is a manifesto, not a preference
  • the screenshot is the artefact, not the setup
  • reproducibility is the discipline, not the decoration

What r/unixporn actually shows

A gallery of desktops photographed to be seen. Not one of them was assembled to get work done faster. Hold that thought until week 11.

reddit.com/r/unixporn/

What you will make

One complete, original, reproducible setup. Built in the open, defended every week, photographed at the end.

The rice is a portrait

We spend twelve weeks proving it.

Before the lab

mise install
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Have a machine, real or virtual, that you are willing to break. Bring one screenshot you admire and one sentence on why.