Maybe the even more important question: Why can you even opt out? Why is this not done on-device, without anything going anywhere to begin with?
I mean, I know the answer, you know the answer, everyone knows the answer. If this was truly privacy preserving, there would be no need to opt out.
Totally reasonable moderation policy tbh
You can go for an Intel B580 and an AMD 7700 and have a decent gaming experience for well under 1000 $/€, even ignoring used parts. A Steam Deck is 420€.
It’s not like gaming is unavailable, but everything above low-end has a premium price tag at the moment. What people don’t seem to realise is that this low-end is still on paar with current gen consoles and games still look pretty good without spending 2k+ on a computer.
KDE Plasma offers a UI similar to Windows out of the box, I would say that’s a good start. Introduce them to the endless customisation options and they might start to dig it. Maybe take a distro aimed at gaming like Bazzite.
Other good options inlcude OpenSUSE or Linux Mint, the latter with another, but also similar feeling desktop.
Although caution is advised, this is a slippery slope to becoming a programmer.
Any intel on affected, high-profile software?
Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet…?
How does your boot setup look? Reinstalling the bootloader or regenerating the boot image could help. Should be easy, not matter whether its GRUB2 or systemd-boot. Config is managed separately. Might want to have a look at that as well.
With Dracut it’s also very easy to generate and configure your boot image. Don’t know how it works with that Arch native tool.
Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…
Aren’t they installed by default on Mint? Definitely are on some distros, I think EndeavourOS and Garuda Linux for example
“That’s neat, I wonder whether I can configure it…”
Pointieststick, Itsfoss, GamingOnLinux, KDE Blogs
Linux basically cannot damage hardware in any way that Windows couldn’t. The hardware/firmware decides what interfaces it offers and what you can configure. If any hardware puts these roadblocks only in the driver or some UI, and (for whatever reason) only the Windows version, I guess you could.
Would be a really strange thing to do tho, since most just implement a generic driver that works everywhere and then at most an interface on top of that.
I mean, why support another API if you have already implemented one, right? Pretty sure there is a Flatpak Version of Proton, wo you can somehow bundle it as well
Bruh, you need a new name. “EU OS” is both terribly bland and super hard to pronounce. I guess they got screwed by EndeavourOS and e/OS already occupying EOS already, but you can do better. Let me try:
EurOS (self-explanatory) Ios (as a play on Io, the mythological ancestor of Europa and, in my humble opinion, a brilliant mocking of iOS) BoIS (Boring Independence System… Why yes, I do like Rust and Arch, how did you know?) PlutOS (Lowest layer, ruler of the underworld, get it? Get it? Okay, it mainly sounds cool.)
… That’s because it comes with vanilla android, unless you buy the e/OS version or flash it yourself
Probably don’t want to play graphics heavy games on it. For everything else it’s pretty much like any other phone. Although of course it’s not quite as premium as flagship phones. Hardware wise, a Pixel 8 leaves it in the dust. But you can’t swap your battery or really anything on that one.
Can we please just ban distro war ragebait?
It’s 2025 and I’m sick and tired of it. You can feel cool for using a specific distro for all I care, you are embarrassing yourself at worst. You are toxic for shitting on other distros or creating an adversarial narrative tho
I mean, good for him I guess? Comparing Mint to Arch is about as pointless as comparing Mint to headless Debian.
If Axel Springer didn’t own a significant share of the company, I would give them a shot
Platform from a whiny, fascist asshole for whiny, fascist assholes. Not that everyone on that platform is one, some might just have a high tolerance for bs