I don't think that's really their main strategy anymore. They try to lock you in their ecosystem to make you subscribe to stuff and buy other, sometimes digital stuff.

Google is trying something similar with their 7 years of support for Pixel devices. I think it's because the development of smartphones (and also computer hardware) has slowed down a lot overall (again, after Apple and AMD shaking it up really well).

Upgrading every year is even less compelling than it used to be, when there were much more significant upgrades.

That I can understand, however I want to piont out that this is an Nvidia problem entirely. Wayland works perfectly fine under 2/3 hardware vendors.

Luckily, they finally open-sourced their shit so going forward, this will probably change. But chances are only from the 2000 series on, so it might take an upgrade for many folks...

All I know is that there are VNC and RDP solutions for Plasma and VNC solutions for Wayland in general.

You can autostart anything on any distro by putting the command in a startup script.

I love how people are complaining about Wayland not being ready or being unstable (whatever that even means, because it's a protocol), while it's the default on both GNOME and Plasma now, which combined probably run on more than 50% of Linux desktops these days.

And not only that, but Cinnamon, Xfce and others want to follow, so very clearly people who know a fair bit about desktops seem to disagree with Wayland being "not ready".

It does not and whatever distro you choose, it will not.

Ein Glück haben wir dafür das Dienstwagenprivileg behalten und Bahn und Brücken trotzdem nicht repariert 🟡🙄

And yet I never do and it hardly ever does. And if it does, it's more often than not application specific and fixed by loading a snapshot and updating again after a week or so, which is next to 0 effort.

100% agree, anonymized data is pretty much irrelevant to the GDPR. An exception would be if it can be de-anonymized with reasonable means.

From anecdotal experience I can only tell you that not once have I witnessed a showstopper bug on Arch. I recommend using btrfs and snapshots to really make sure however.

I'm gonna go with no, because of containerization and permission management. On your computer, any program can do pretty much anything, unless you explicitly take measures against this. On a smartphone, you get a lot of control over your apps. In newer Android versions you can even completely disable cameras and microphones (even if only in software).

I would use a throwaway account and avoid giving Google any personal data tho. Of course they could still figure stuff out, but it's harder and unreliable, not to mention super-duper illegal (at least in the EU), so I kinda doubt they go the extra mile.

Man munkelt das stößt gar nicht so wenigen in der CDU sauer auf - denn die regieren entweder schon mit den Grünen oder wissen, dass sie vielleicht keine Wahl haben, wenn die Kräfteverhältnisse nur schlecht (bzw. gut :P) genug stehen.

Sogar Imperator Merz höchst selbst passt inzwischen auf, wie er sich bzgl. Koalitionen äußert. Außer der Ampel natürlich. Die unterstützt Kriminelle, hat ganz alleine alle Brücken kaputt gemacht und VW gegen die Wand gefahren. Das weiß jeder.

To add to this, there aren't that many forks (in the true sense of the word) of Arch for the same reason.