Source: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server

Reporting is done by users who voluntarily upload their system specs via
# hw-probe -all -upload

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What way do you imagine would be more precise?

Unavoidable analytics, apparently. Yay?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well do you want useful stats or not /s

    But seriously, a lot of opt-in (that never get opted in to) data is insanely useful for developers, but it has such a bad stigma that we never get anywhere close to the amount of usefulness a larger dataset could provide.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like the way kde does it. On first install it gives a slider with how much analytics you want to send. I just do all of it because I trust KDE, but it's nice that it asks you. They probably have some pretty good data.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is the important point IMHO. This kind of feedback is exactly something I'd love to do, but I don't think I had any idea about it before this post. Just a little popup on a new install/upgrade would be a much broader net.

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