For me, ricing is about getting my environment aligned with me. This means:
- Same color scheme in every application. I don't like it, when an off-color window is standing out
- vim navigation. My fingers are used to this
- hotkeys. many hotkeys. I rarely use the mouse...
- Resource usage. Go away with your 3d animations etc. I mostly use 3+ year old hardware because it's not yet broken. I don't need hog ram with eye-candy.