Hi Daniel. I’m not sure what you mean by “Debian’s discriminatory hiring policies.” It’s an all-volunteer open source project. It is not run by a for-profit company and does not employ paid developers for its core distribution.

I’m curious to hear how you came to that conclusion.

Finally, I had an HP laptop that just would not update Win10 and I decided it was time to get another laptop. After a year or so, I decide to put Linux on the old HP. Debian this time, because of Ububntu’s BS. Then I hear tell of Debian’s discriminatory hiring policies to be “more inclusive.” I decided, if I can change beer brands because of this woke crap, I can go with another distro for the same reasons. Try Arch. Total frustration. Go with Manjaro. Somewhat better, but still somewhat frustrating. Thinking about Nix. Steep learning curve with weirdly explained tutorial.

The point is digging through the voluminous online info to find what will actually help me. Reading things and saying what the hell is such and such and falling down another rabbit hole to understand. Multiple rabbit holes that really just distract from the main mission and lead to multiple missteps in finding a solution. Documentation and well-meaning community members providing answers that just lead to more and more questions. Reading simple instructions that just don’t work for one reason or another.

Yeah, though no computer expert, I’m not unfamiliar either and if I experience this level of frustration, ain’t no casual computer user ever, ever gonna do much of that.

Thank you. I hope you will be, too.

Hi Aidan,

Yup. If it has an Intel chip and it’s made after 2006 (?), it runs ME. However, there’s a way to partially disable it by running a Python script: https://github.com/mrsensey/me_cleaner. IME still runs during boot, but shuts off during normal operation. I think that’s about as free from IME as you can get.

Thank you.