MDD - Opt-in vs Opt-out

[nikgnomic]

@Fangdrasil

Imagine having a tool that could take your hardware profile and compare it against existing hardware profiles on Manjaro. The benefit to support troubleshooting could be significant.

We have already got one (it’s very nice )

@nikgnomic

AUR package hw-probe uses inxi + hwinfo (if installed) + many other commands to gather system information and (optionally) upload data to linux-hardware.org database

@Yochanan

You mean the Linux Hardware Database ?

Testers needed: Manjaro Data Donor

Manjaro Hardware Database

MDD telemetry and Manjaro Metrics are not needed for troubleshooting hardware

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@Ben

perhaps with a fresh install, two options can be available

The python script already has 2 options

GitHub - manjaro/mdd: Manjaro Data Donor - WIP

Dry Run

python mdd.py --dry-run

only display the data that would be sent without actually doing so.

Telemetry

If you only want to count the device but not provide any data about your system, then run:

python mdd.py --disable-telemetry

If possible please provide all information though. It helps us with learning about what our users need. And the graphs look cool!

Users could use 2nd option just to be counted as a Manjaro user without sharing hardware information

So IMO this has never been a simple opt-in or opt-out thing