Bro i just use KDE. Sometimes i tweak it a bit, mostly when i should be doing something else. But i think the defaults are just perfect.

I just want the option to tweak it a bit. I like the fact that if i want to open Dolphin file manager with my buttplug i can probably find a way to do so.

When I have discovered Linux, I did all the ricing with Compiz, until I actually had to get productive ...

My UI could be prettier but it is not distractingly bad or ugly. Just changed my wallpaper and that's probably the only visual customization I'll do.

I try to choose a distro that looks aesthetically pleasing out of the box so I don't have to do any of that.

Most people just something that works and isn't cluttered.

I might spend 30 minutes after a distro install getting things right, once I have it set up I don't tinker with it much.

I do change the background image every now and then.

It was fun for a while. But now I just want a stable system.

Customizing my development setup is enough for me.

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.

Gnome with Dash to Panel and ArcMenu

Good nuf

Its unfair that breeze is such a dam clean looking theme.

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.

Customized bling bling PCs are for kids. Like Windows.

It's amazing how much I agree with (almost) every response to this post (so far).

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 ^^

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

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