Fuck the whole "ricing" culture, because it’s a whirlwind of self-absorbed, self-congratulatory nonsense wrapped up in a tightly polished, pastel-colored aesthetic. Seriously, it’s like these people are trying to get the Linux desktop to look like an anime battle sequence, except it’s just them battling with a terminal for 30 hours a week.
Everywhere the rice boys waste hours (HOURS) spent tweaking a terminal environment that you’ll just throw away in a month because “it wasn’t ergonomic enough”. Like, dude, you’ve spent 40 hours downloading and recompiling a obscue plugin with 300-line config file and when you boot it up, you’re scrolling through Reddit posts just to figure out what keybinding you need to open a damn file. The idea that you "optimized" anything is laughable when it’s taking you longer to look up how to rearrange your tiles than it would to just open the damn program and get stuff done.

And don’t get me started on the holy grail of the ricer's wildest dreams:
>Hyprland.
Oh, you thought you’d just get a lightweight, Wayland compositor and increase your productivity? Yeah, right. After hours and hours of hacking, googling, and crying, you’ve got the perfect, tiled, dark-mode, pastel-porn masterpiece that looks great... until you realize you can’t even move windows because you’ve missed a plugin and you spent an entire night trying to figure out why your windows won’t snap into place like in the reddit screenshots. But sure, it's "just more efficient," right?

And then you get the meme of all memes: the ricer who won't admit that they actually forgot which key combo they set up to move a window. And don’t you dare forget about the obligatory waifu wallpaper that makes it look like your terminal is powered by anime tears. Now your "minimalist" terminal is crammed with so many customizations, plugins, and 20Mb of nerd Icon fonts, you need a PhD to open the right file. Perfect.