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How will this affect GNU/Linux? They mention an installer and a yes/no prompt, which to me implies Windows. If it can be disabled, I suppose distro packagers will likely make the choice for the user when they create the package. Or is this a driver that would be included in the kernel itself?

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Intel provides open source drivers GPU drivers for GNU/Linux. As long as that remains true it is unlikely they'd try to collect telemetry through those drivers. If they do, it would get stripped out long before it reaches the kernel.

It will not affect Linux

Six months later: Our analytics show very little uptake in Linux use so we are reallocating investment towards windows users.

While AI companies are buying high end GPUs by the truckload to run on their Linux fleets this is unlikely to be a problem

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