I agree that having opt-out metrics is not perfect. Having 2 options with no default is better, an interactive choice, not just "annoyingly clicking ‘skip’ "
my question of course is:
This introduces a big intertwining between GNOME and Fedora. Currently, Fedora just ships vanilla GNOME. A small custom setup dialog page, a small extension for the logo, that’s it.
If this proposal goes through, there will only be data about the GNOME users, and not the other Desktops, correct?
Or what parts of this are cross-desktop? Listing installed packages etc. could be done everywhere, but there would be no GUI page to accept the collection.
As a KDE user, and being very much in favor of “Fedora KDE Workstation”, I would never contribute any data.