I tried Debian when I built my PC back in 2025. It didn’t have any support for the bleeding edge parts I chose.
I then tried LMDE as a compromise. It also didn’t have the support I needed.
It’s a little too stable for my use-case… but runs well on my older laptops.
a very good way to get your opinion thrown out as automated spam.
Your title has it a little bit backwards. It doesn’t affect you, until it does. That’s why privacy is so difficult. People are naturally reactive. Their phone number gets leaked, they get spam calls, they suddenly care who has their phone number.
But a license plate capture? There is no immediate affect. If the driver was given a monetary charge for every single license plate capture, there would be rioting in the streets and so many laws would be written and repealed… but there isn’t. So people don’t care because it doesn’t affect them.
I tried explaining this to my parents, and they got the concept in general, but again they are naturally reactive in their habits. They won’t discuss banking details in front of their Alexa microphone, but will happily install a driving tracker in their car at the behest of their insurance agent. When their insurance went up because of excess braking (they have those BS short yellow lights to help the red-light cameras) then suddenly they cared that they were being tracked. The surveillance didn’t affect them, until it did.
It’s so easy for people to just not think about it, or assume it won’t happen to them, because that’s the easiest method to cope with the shrinking amount of privacy we get.
I know of no way to champion privacy. No call to arms about an offense to rally behind. It’s a slow erosion that people don’t immediately notice, until it finally affects them.
Nah, this wasn’t an issue with gaming. This was just that the parts were new. The motherboard I chose used a 2024 chipset that Debian didn’t recognize. Basic stuff like detecting drives and outputting video beyond VESA standards was busted because of it. It took around 6 more months until Trixie came out with support.