The Trends section has lots of pie charts for hardware data that can be filtered by distribution
hwinfo is available from Manjaro extra repository for gathering data; but is not included on Manjaro ISOs; and is not suggested on forum much; so not many users opt-in to uploading data
I use alsa-info.sh for in-depth information about hardware, drivers and ALSA, but alsa-info online data is not searchable like hwinfo.
I have asked many forum users to run sudo alsa-info.sh --upload and I do not recall anyone objecting to sharing information
An opt-out is not a bad thing as long as the user is properly informed and consents to share data. If I was asked to share data similar to agreeing to an update; and I could see data uploaded was benign; I would probably agree
“donor” is not totally inappropriate as sharing information would be useful for Manjaro Team,
but it is only a one-way thing
IMO if this was a “two-way street” and was useful for users it would get more acceptance
If user shares data with Manjaro Team and has a link to uploaded data they could also post the link to data in Troubleshooting topics