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Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 1 year ago by vordalack@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Why are distro communities turning linux more and more into Windows and Mac OS clones?

This is why I use Arch.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)...

That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.

[–] Dezzorian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For gaming rigs, check out Garuda, imo a pretty nice Arch distro without telemetry and easy installation.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manjaro manages to do just about everything wrong for one reason or another. They're trying to be the Canonical of the Arch ecosystem and they're not even close to competent enough to pull it off.

I'm sure they'll find some way to DDOS something with their own telemetry sooner or later.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't understand why people use it, it's just more buggy Arch. If you really don't want to deal with the installer, use an installer like Endeavor OS.

Or if you think Arch is unstable, use a different distro, because Manjaro is worse. I like openSUSE Tumbleweed (also rolling, but much more reliable), and there are tons of other great distros (Fedora/Garuda, Debian/Mint, etc). Use pretty much anything but Manjaro...

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, you can vote whether it should be opt-in or opt-out.
Oh, voting requires "Trust level 1".

Anyway, I may stop donating to Manjaro due to this. Now I just go with Arch anyway. archinstall even makes it quick to setup a VM.