You’re messing with partitions which means there is the potential for data loss, be it hardware, human error, or a random cat. You should, if the data is important to you, have a backup.

Is it read only?

Why?

Let me put the question back to you. How do think the uniquely identifiable information will help them improve Manjaro?

Do you think they’ve got a Russian satellite and will track down your HDD serial number from space?

No.

There’s lots of benefits to telemetry.

As I basically said, if you bothered to read my comment.

They’ve let TLS certs expire on multiple occasions.

And they told their community to set their clocks back. As a workaround, it will work but all your created and modified data will have the wrong timestamps.

enable telemetry by default … MAC addresses, disk serial numbers

Another reason to not use Manjaro. Just use Endeavour instead.

Edit: I’m not against telemetry pre se. I have the KDE feedback enabled for example but that was opt in and sends no unique data.

You can’t fool me, they have another daemon for that

Update /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and add some DNS servers (in this example, 1.1.1.1 is CloudFlare, and 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google but you can use your preferred DNS servers.)

[Resolve]
DNS=1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8
FallbackDNS=8.8.4.4

Restart system resolved:

service systemd-resolved restart

Run resolvectl status (or systemd-resolve --status in older versions of systemd) to see if the settings took.

If they don’t take after a reboot, there’s something else going on.

Pro: you have a custom kernel.

Con: the next morning, you can have a non-functioning computer with no idea of what you did.

Recompile your kernel whilst drunk

Technically, all comedy is staged unless you’re laughing at someone’s real life misfortune.

It’s boring to write

KDE Plasma because it’s the one I like. If it disappeared tomorrow, I’d use Xfce.

They can be maintainers if they can document that they are volunteers and do not work for any state sponsored entity. I don’t know haw easy that will be in practice.

https://news.itsfoss.com/russian-linux-maintainers-geopolitics/

It’s background being so dark really clashed with the default light theme for KDE:

But it has toilets

Can’t comment on Gnome as I don’t use it, but that hasn’t been my experience with KDE. Previously running Tumbleweed and now running EndeavourOS

Language evolves

Weren’t they called videocasts at one point?

Kinetic scrolling off and smooth scrolling on is so much better. Thanks for the hint.

It’s actually working mostly fine me now with KDE 6.2.1, kernel 6.11.3, and nvidia 5.60.something. I get janky scrolling in firefox but apart from that it’s been fine.

It used to be so good back then but everything else has got better while Ubuntu has got worse