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@kdenlive We have created a 5 hours long documentary (4 parts) entirely with Kdenlive. Took us 2-3 years, and 3.3 terabytes of project files. Some 40 hours of 4k footage edited.

And we posted it all for free - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro… - streaming from or own Peertube instance.

Trailer - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…

I think this is a clear demonstration of what can be done with Kdenlive.

@GravityAce Our TROMjaro www.tromjaro.com/ comes with a bunch of tools for that. A VPN, a system wide ad/tracker blocker, a custom Firefox that is stripped of their BS and has adblockers and such installed, plus a lot more. We use Arch plus XFCE and have custom tools built for the OS to make it look neat and work well.

Our approach is trade-free. Meaning you should not have to give anything in return for using the software. Not your data, not your attention or currency. Thus you won’t see ads, trackers, free trials and all of this crap.

@dustyData I have hundreds of thousands of files that need to be backed up locally and in the cloud. I use either Vorta or Pika. Both are interfaces for Borg. Easy to use and their deduplication feature manages to save a lot of diskspace. I tried so many backup solutions and none worked as reliably.

@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.