Meta post I've decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn't use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn't know the origin of the term 'ricing' until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it's from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

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[–] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Jfc you people never stop.

Maybe they're pissed because they have tons of repos using master and changing all that to main or dealing with some that are main, some are master, especially having set your default branch is a pita is a lot just because someone might be offended? Seems fine to be upset.

Like people can be all for being aware of societal issues and rectifying past mistakes but there was never any "slave" branch here and master never held any bad connotation to begin with.

I've dealt with this and it's not the end if the world but it's also dumb it ever got to be this big a deal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Tbh - leader / follower is usually a better description vs master / slave.

    Parent / child vs master / sub.

    Main or final vs master

    I don’t get all pissy about it but I was never comfortable with master & slave.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a whole different animal when it's a company with thousands of repos..

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