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I’d switch to Windows but I don’t want to use an OS that requires digging through shady online instructions and running random power shell scripts in order to stop it from spying on me until the next update.
I disabled telemetry on Linux(Arch, btw) by not installing enshittified corporate spyware masquerading as an operating system.
Ocular/Scribus
Linux, Linux Foundation
The drivers don’t have telemetry, it’s the software that comes with it.
On Linux you can just install the driver from your package manager without the need for any third party applications.
https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis?os=linux
docker + https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Docker#Front-ends
VS Codium, open source VS Code.
nvim if you want your (programming) life changed
https://aur.archlinux.org/
We have telemetry on linux?
If drivers are not open source, how can we make sure of that?
Thank you for other suggestions.