A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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  • @Charger8232 TROMjaro is a trade-free Linux distro. Meaning you do not have to trade your data, attention, or currency in order to use it and its apps. meaning, no ads, no bs free trials, no data collection and all of that crap. We also have over 700 curated trade-free apps at www.tromjaro.com/apps/ that you can install directly from the website.

    We have a trade-free VPN, and a content blocker in order to stop the ads and tracking system wide.

    On top of this TROMjaro is super easy to use and easy to customize. Please see the homepage www.tromjaro.com














  • @shapis I agree. I used Gnome for several years before switching to XFCE. Gnome feels like a great DE for people who do not do a lot of things on their computers. I normally have 5 or so workspaces and on each a dozen of apps open. Some apps are workspace-specific, some are available on all workspaces. You are right, multitasking when you do so much is a pain in Gnome. And I really really tried to like it.

    Not to mention that you need a lot of extensions to make it useful.

    Gnome does great in terms of animations and overall look, but not very practical and feels very non-customizable.

    XFCE looks awful out of the box and the lack of animations is quite annoying. But you can make it look good - see our custom distro based on XFCE - TROMjaro. And if you give XFCE a try you will realize how sane it is. You can customize it a ton without being overwhelmed by thousands of options. You right click on panels and apps and you get sane options to move or tweak them.

    As for workspaces I personally use them as “names” on the top bar and can switch between workspaces so fast, almost like tabs in a browser.

    Not as fancy as Gnome, but boy this is really useful. And practical.

    I’ve also added mouse gestures on my desktop via Easystroke so I can move windows on any workspace via these gestures. So easy.

    So I’d say that Gnome looks fancy, and it is very cool for those who do not do a lot of work on their machines and have to switch between many work spaces and lots of apps. And I’d say XFCE is extremely underrated, perhaps because out of the box it looks terrible. Maybe try TROMjaro…see how it goes.




  • @Ephera But my point is that this practice is harmful for the fediverse as a whole. Non transparent, decided for thousands of users, shallow decisions in many instances. To move from one federated platform to another is not as easy as you make it sound. I know, I have done that and I also manage a few instances. So this is a non-solution.

    The solution is to, for one, make all instance-level blocking of users or other instances transparent and notify all users when any future such decision is taken. And second, try not to panic. It is fine. Words, no swords, we are dealing with. Users have a lot of control over that they see. Teach them to exercise that. This is a far better approach.