This is 650MB[1] Windows bloatware (now spyware) that gets installed alongside the driver. For 99.999% of users, it provides absolutely no benefit[2]. For Linu

This is 650MB[1] Windows bloatware (now spyware) that gets installed alongside the driver. For 99.999% of users, it provides absolutely no benefit[2]. For Linux users, all that is required is a periodic update to the open source kernel, as well as proprietary firmware blobs, and open source Mesa software, and that's it. If you really feel it necessary to see statistics for your Intel GPU, there is a sysfs interface for doing so, and open source tools readily available to make it easy to view and use these statistics[3]. [1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/726609/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-whql-windows.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/726609/inte... [1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/arc-control.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discre... [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/-/blob/master/tools/intel_gpu_top.c https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/-/blob/mast...