Re: Ubuntu hardware trends

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

19.12.2019, 14:42, "Jared Norris" <jrnorris at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 19:08, Andrey Ponomarenko
> <andrewponomarenko at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>  Hello all.
>>
>>  This is a new statistical report on Ubuntu-powered hardware based on Linux-Hardware.org data: https://github.com/linuxhw/Trends/tree/master/Dist/Ubuntu
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>
>
> Hi Andrey,
>
> This list is for Ubuntu user technical support...
>
> Downloading random software designed to collect and upload unknown
> information from your computer to someone else's server is a pretty
> terrible idea in general terms, especially when there are already
> official packages for the same purpose [1].
>
> [1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man8/hwinfo.8.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared

Hello Jared,

Seems you don't understand the purpose and results of the project.

In general terms, hw-probe just collects hwinfo output in the public GitHub repository (after removing all private strings from it). There is no any "unknown information" or "someone else's server" here as you can see.

Why not just redirect to a proper mail list or help improve the project?

Please also see https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics

Thanks for your feedback.
 
 
Andrey
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