I recently made the switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint and I'm really inspired by the amazing ricing setups I've seen online. However, as soon as I booted up Linux, I found myself completely lost on how to achieve similar customizations. I've been searching for a step-by-step guide or something that breaks down the different aspects of ricing, especially for improving productivity in the Cinnamon desktop environment. Any suggestions for tutorials, blogs, or resources that could help me get started would be greatly appreciated!
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Start by picking one specific thing you want to customize and dive deep into learning how to change it. It's a bit of a time sink, but once you change something and like it, you'll feel accomplished. Just rinse and repeat!
What exactly are you looking to change? I doubt there's a single tutorial that covers everything for ricing in Cinnamon, but detailing your goals might help narrow down the resources you need.
Just hoping to make my desktop look sleek with a fancy launcher and a cooler window manager!
I started ricing by installing the i3 window manager! It has great documentation, and all you need to do is edit a config file. Then I added Rofi for launching apps and switched to Polybar for a nicer status bar. Planning on adding i3lock-color next!
That sounds like a solid plan, I’ll look into it!
Consider using a separate computer or a virtual machine for practice so you don’t mess up your main setup. Ricing is just fancy customization. I’d recommend checking out the 'Beginner's guide to Ricing' to get oriented, then explore additional resources to find what you like best.
This guide looks super helpful! Thanks for sharing, I’ll definitely check it out.
Totally! I've been using ChatGPT to help with my research and it’s a gem.