Hey all,

A few months back, I bought a Dell Extreme Rugged Latitude 7214 from eBay (used, without a hard drive). I inserted a drive into the slot through caddy, installed a Linux distro, etc. and am pleased with my experience. However, recently I opened the BIOS and was looking through its settings, and noticed this feature called "Computrace" is enabled.

I've done some research about what it is, and, based on what I've found, it seems you have to contact the company to potentially have it disabled (or replace the motherboard lol).

However, my inquiry is whether or not this Computrace has any actual effect on my computer, since it's running Linux instead of Windows (I saw a comment online that said it only matters if some .exe is running, which wouldn't hold on Linux). That is, can Computrace keylog, track my activity, my geolocation, etc?

Thank you for all the help in advance!