superkret

Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.

As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn’t happen. The letters just stopped.

In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.

Almost no one uses Linux client PCs for work, except for developers.

The way they catch you is by downloading a complete “Linux ISO” you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that’s the evidence.

So either don’t seed a complete “ISO”, or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.

Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)

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Yeah, “don’t do anything” is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.

The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you’ll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

I literally never had a visible bug on Arch, whereas my last Ubuntu install greeted me with an error message because some part of gnome crashed right on first boot.
I realize this is anecdotal, though.

I think the response may have been one too, at your expense.

Sorry to tell you but the headphone jack is dead. You can plug headphones into USB C if you don’t want batteries.

Personally, I think that one standard port for everything on every phone is a good thing. That way everyone’s efforts for development and optimization are bundled.

Linux hates, hates, hates NVidia.

It’s the other way around, actually.

the stability of Ubuntu

That’s not really a selling point.

So… the Fairphone?

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Sounds like a very complicated solution to a problem you could solve with a guillotine.

I’m talking about third party software, not what’s in the repository.
It’s usually available as .deb or .rpm and nothing else.
On Arch someone may or may not have converted it and put it in the AUR, and it may or may not be maintained.

Besides, I run Sid, which isn’t point release nor outdated.

One of our customers previously had an IT provider who set up an all-linux infrastructure.
He told us it almost brought his business down, since he was unable to find employees.
Every time he mentioned that they’d have to work with a Linux PC (as a secretary or bookkeeper) they backed out.

Are you talking about the complete OS or the kernel?

yes I know. (Besides, Debian’s official documentation isn’t the wiki, but the Debian handbook).
The point is, on Debian you don’t need the wiki. Things that are a long manual process on Arch (best example: Nextcloud) are already preconfigured or there’s a ready made solution available.

Oh yeah, I always use the graphical expert installer. If the normal installer defaults to 1GB of swap without telling you, that’s pretty bad.
1GB swap is pointless IMO. Either make the swap space twice your RAM or don’t bother.

Still don’t know how that could fuck up drivers though. On a normal system, I don’t even use swap anymore.