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I don’t often agree with boomer takes, but I agree with this one.

Having never heard of TROMjaro, I looked it up, read that it’s designed “for my brain”, whatever that means, and when I looked at the About page for elucidation I quickly ended up on a site with a library of cult-flavored booklets about “trade” being evil. I gather that the actual point of the distro is to make Manjaro more fully free by removing packages that collect data, but Parabola already does this and is certified by the FSF fully free.

Ideology aside, is there something about TROMjaro that makes it a better user experience than other distros?

Manjaro was one of many I tried after becoming increasingly unhappy with Mint. It’s also the one I stuck with, and it’s run just fine for me for years. I accept that the reports of it being flawed have merit, but I care the most about my own experience, which has been excellent. If you want to test it, by all means, test it! Find out how it works for you personally.

But also try EndeavourOS and other Arch derivatives. One of those might be more to your taste.

They probably have some internal application where they literally do fill-in-the-blanks on the description and timestamps and the rest is a template.

I think Tux is embarrassing, to be honest. I’ve never seen an iteration of him that looks dignified.

You’re right. So far we only know about transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep, goats, mink, elk, deer, cattle, cats, antelope, camels, and humans, they can incubate for decades, and we can only reliably detect prions post-mortem. It’ll never turn up in any other animal, nope!

Yeah, prion diseases are delicious.

I think this is what bothers me most about the “I have nothing to hide” crowd. With enough data about you, it’s a lot easier to manipulate you.