You are all looking at this the wrong way.
Everybody is going on about privacy concerns - yet the data has nothing to do with privacy.
Privacy is you personal identifiables - and your basic hardware does NOT identify you as a person - and there is nothing, not even remotely related to private information.
The hardware information on the other hand is useful in many ways.
- How many of you have ever speculation on how big the Manjaro userbase is?
- Is it really needed for Manjaro to support 4.x or even 5.x series of the Linux Kernel?
- How much effort do the team need to put in to continue to promote X11 instead of Wayland?
- How many low-powered systems is running Manjaro - as in do the team need to cater for low-end hardware?
- How many Manjaro systems do actually use Nvidia?
- Which Nvidia GPU’s are most common - do Manjaro really need to provide those older drivers?
- How many users change the system to use Pulseaudio instead of Pipewire?
- How many users think of tomorrow?
- What if Manjaro Linux announced sunsetting the distribution due to the team deciding enough is enough?
There is a lot of questions like the above - the answers would be helpful and the mdd script is designed to provide data that could possibly give insight into those.
And there is no privacy issues connected with the answer to those questions - so please don’t claim it is an invasion of privacy - because it is not - at least I don’t see it that way.
- Booting Manjaro Linux on a live ISO doesn’t count.
- Installing Manjaro Linux as a test doesn’t count.
- Using Manjaro Linux regularly does count.