I respect your freedom to choose which terms to consider offensive, and I do not plan to talk you into accepting terms offensive to you. Nevertheless, I want to say that while “ricing your car” does have derogatory undertones, “ricing my Linux system” just does not have the same undertone. Ricing cars, as in the racist context, means customizing cars so heavily that it becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner#/media/File:Poser.JPG. Ricing a Linux system, on the other hand, is the act of making a Linux desktop system as aesthetically pleasing as possible.