What's rice?
A borderline racial slur about making things look good without substance behind the appearance: e.g.: "riced-up Honda civic"
to "rice" a system you are often changing a lot of "dot files", hidden configuration files on your system which begin with a period in the name. having a bunch of dots (like rice) is descriptive but also can be a reference to a racist term used about tuning asian vehicles.
when linux users use it they're usually just referring to a bunch of altered configuration files which are generally dot files. thus, a rice. but im not sure the term would exist if the racist term hadn't already.
im not sure the term would exist if the racist term hadn’t already.
It definitely wouldn't. That's not really a term that occurs "organically" in computer language. "Rice" has nothing to do with computers, so it would have had to come from somewhere else.
Can I get the dots kind sir?
Nice colors!
Wow, this looks so cool!
Hits the spot
Gorgeous!
Looks awesome!
Doesn't it make more sense to get rid of the gaps at this screen size?
