I tried what they were talking about but could’t figure it out. I tried Mint and had the same issue, I reinstalled stock Ubuntu and it’s working again. The strange thing is that on Budgie and Mint it would show my second monitor, which was plugged into the gpu in display settings.
Also, i’m not sure who was downvoting you, but it wasn’t me.
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation DG2 [Arc A310] [8086:56a6] (rev 05)
0f:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] [1002:15d8] (rev d8)
That option isn’t available. In fact no video will output from the gpu until the os loads. It does output through stock Ubuntu.
Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let’s them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They’re just doing it more now that they definitely won’t face any repercussions.
They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation meeting the list of banned topics.
If you’re that paranoid about it, then just physically destroy the drive.
Windows 10 has a bug with 100% disk utilization that goes away if you have an ssd. You should look into upgrading the ram to 4 or 8 gb. ddr3 ram is dirt cheap on ebay. It would probably cost $10-$15 for 8gb and another $10 for a 120gb ssd.