Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
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Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
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Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#2Glad I left for Debian + make/checkinstall.
Manjaro is one of the messiest distros I’ve used.
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#3If you want easy Arch, there's EndevourOS. It's rolling instead of "stable" but in my experience Manjaro's actual stability is overrated, an update straight up trashed the bootloader once.
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#4If you want easy Arch, there's EndevourOS. It's rolling instead of "stable" but in my experience Manjaro's actual stability is overrated, an update straight up trashed the bootloader once.
In addition to that, my experience is that Manjaro is terribly slow. No idea why.
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#5They and can should count users only by updates.
Make a package that is required and only changed upon each release (containing for instance /etc/os-release) and count how many distinct IP addresses download it.
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#6Every shitty move, no matter how bad for all involved - is blindly copied by open source. If Google decided to distribute heroin and spoons to all developers, cause thats "what sherlock did" - one day later all of open source would chase the pink dragon.
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#7Based on this thread, it seems like the initial idea was 'just enable it by default and let people disable it' but that quickly changed after the first objections came in. Whatever step the proposal is in right now seems to be focused on making a system to gather telemetry first, I can't see any definitive decision on opt-in vs opt-out (though opt-in through the installer/welcome screen seems to be the best solution I've seen).
This is not unlike Debian's telemetry collection, which also asks nicely if you'd like to share your information with the project.
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#8If you want easy Arch, there's EndevourOS. It's rolling instead of "stable" but in my experience Manjaro's actual stability is overrated, an update straight up trashed the bootloader once.
Been using EndevourOS after stability issues with Manjaro...
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#9> Until now what has been done, was counting systems via ping.manjaro.org 11. These pings are sent from Manjaro systems via the NetworkManager.
I really hope that's not the default out of the box behaviour.
Re: Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
#10They and can should count users only by updates. Make a package that is required and only changed upon each release (containing for instance /etc/os-release) and count how many distinct IP addresses download it.
They don't host all of the mirrors themselves so they'd be missing out on most of the data that way.