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.

Libadwaita looks pretty great 🤷

I set dark mode, choose a wallpaper, change a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and I’m done.

Turns out most people just want a functioning operating system and don’t need a 4d-chess mosaic of self-expression.

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.

@Sunshine Using stock Ubuntu without touching the look and feel since 08.04, I’m a normie ^^

Pretty much. The most I did is install a rosepine theme for everything that had a rosepine theme.

Not visually, at least. But especially on bare WMs, custom scripts and hotkeys are the way to go.