I would start by looking at what files are included. There's the obvious .desktop entry, but also checking if there are any files put into /bin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ etc. should suffice.
If you consider some of these packages as "dependencies" then look at if anything depends on it. But there are application-packages that others depend on, such as coreutils.
I'm a simple man, I just search directly in qbittorrent.
without explicit consent
Couldn't they just add another ToS checkbox to click when installing the game?
Interesting! I used arch for about 2 years on my gaming rig and it worked fine but I was worried if he went with something based on Arch that he would eventually run into issues due to not properly maintaining it (avoiding partial upgrades for example). But I'm probably overthinking it. If he sticks to a GUI for installing and updating packages and avoid messing with the terminal initially it should be fine.
I will add EndeavourOS to a small list of recommendations (rolling vs point release) so he can decide for himself.
What distro did you go with? My friend is showing intrest in trying Linux but I'm not sure what to recommend him. I use more advanced distros myself but I want it to work well for him OOtB while also not requiring any tinkering. I'm think of either some ubuntu-flavour or fork, like Kubuntu or maybe Mint.
At least to my understanding. My model is the T14 Gen 1 (AMD). But I would recommend checking newer models.
A few points that indicates this:
It's possible to order it with linux preinstalled:
In limited countries or regions, Lenovo offers customers an option to order computers with the preinstalled Linux® operating system. - User Guide, Appendix C
Ubuntu 20.04 certification: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202006-27980
RHEL 8.3 certification: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/detail/71625
There's a "Linux Certification" page (whatever that means): https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd500492
The BIOS software comes with linux instructions. Though I just use whatever is available with fwupd, which is a CLI application but has GUI support through Gnome with gnome-firmware.
More info about linux support here, under "Notebooks and Laptops": www.lenovo.com/linux
A million edits later: I got confused by what the product ID was but I think I finally figured it out.
My thinkpad model officially supports linux, so there is no problem there. It is also much cheaper than any of those brands, and it's also available from the regular stores.
It should be easy for ltt to reimburse then, which imo should also cover lost opportunity costs and potential damages due to leak of IP.
I use debian 12 on my work laptop. I agree with your points but I still use it because I want the fundamental system to be stable, and then any software I want to be more up-to-date I build from source (tmux, alacritty, neovim) or download separately (vscode/slack/joplin).
I used to use ubuntu because it worked so well with my hardware ootb, but I got tired of snap.
I meant for all packages. But when it comes to the actual details on how to do it, I'm not super sure. I know pacman is pretty sophisticated so it might support querying the package repo (or local package db) somehow. I would start by looking up the
-Foption.