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GOL’s first monthly hardware survey EDIT

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Gaming on Linux has been showing Steam Hardware Survey for a while now, but with the data being quite broad and specific only to Steam, we decided to make our own Linux-specific survey. This should give us an idea of metrics within Linux gaming, such as the percentage of users who use Wine, dual boot or what their favourite game retailer is.

The idea is to have the survey running monthly, and then publish the stats at the end of the month alongside Steam Hardware Survey, hopefully shedding some light on a few things which still remain a mystery and over time give an idea of how things evolve. Maybe in the future this may also provide some interesting data to studios looking to make/port games for Linux as well.

The survey is anonymous and is just intended to be a bit of fun, so please don’t try and take it 100 times to boost the stats for your favourite distro or retailer - that would do a great disservice to all of us who looking for some interesting and accurate data. If you have any suggestions on changing the questions or wording of the questions, feel free to write them on here (but bear in mind that SurveyMonkey has a limit of 10 questions for free users) and we may revise the survey next month.

Please feel free to take the survey and share it with anyone who games on Linux - the bigger the sample, the better the data we will have.

EDIT: SurveyMonkey have decided to reveal only after publishing the survey that a free account only allows a maximum sample of 100 people. For this month only, I'll pay the fee, but that still means that the sample is capped at 1000 (and at this rate, it looks like it may go over 1000) so the survey will end once that number is reached. If anyone knows of any free survey tools we can use which don't have sample caps, let me know in the comments or send me a PM so we can do next month's survey on a different site. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Zapa Sep 8, 2014
And a-done! Took the survey.
ave Sep 8, 2014
I decided not to take the survey, seeing as how there were only a few spots available. While I would love to play games on Linux, my graphics card is no longer supported, so I have to stick to windows. As soon as I get a new rig, that will change, but right now that will just skew the results.
Zeitgeist Sep 8, 2014
Done. Check out Lime Survey!
Segata Sanshiro Sep 8, 2014
I've taken all the comments on board about the survey - so the next one will be far better. Despite all the flaws in this one, the data is pretty interesting (and surprising) based on the 500 surveys so far.

Something which no one picked up on is that the questions should have been time-specific if we were doing this monthly (ie. how many Linux games did you buy THIS MONTH, instead of PER MONTH. There's reasons why I dropped Maths at age 15 in school :P
WorMzy Sep 8, 2014
Would it not be better to ask how many were bought last month, and post the survey on the first of every new month. It'd be a good idea to specify the month too, e.g. "How many games did you buy last month (August)?", otherwise people will find a way to misunderstand what you mean.
oldrocker99 Sep 8, 2014
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Done. While there may be better survey sites, this is certainly a good start. I personally describe my system (AMD Phenom II 965, 16GB PC1333, nVidia 650ti, Kubuntu 14.04) a "hardly high-end" when I see b*tching from people with nVidia 770s about their "pitiful" frame rates of "only" 122 fps. Every Steam game I run runs just fine and dandy; the only game which crashed was X-COM, which was fixed by the 3.40 nVidia drivers. Y'know, just like Windows.

BTW, "Crash Time," from the Indie Bundle, is one fun little card game that I've been having some fun with.
pcklbgr Sep 8, 2014
I think question "What proportion of games do you play through Wine?" is a bit well.. Not wrong, but could be phrased better.

Most of my games on linux - come from Steam and some of them are probably not really native (wine wrappers what have you). And as I personnaly don't really care if it is native as long as it works without issues - I can't really give an educated answer to this question.
Segata Sanshiro Sep 8, 2014
A game built ported through a wine wrapper should be considered native (even though it's not strictly native) simply because that counts as a Linux sale when you buy it. I should make that clearer in the next one though, it's a good point.
sev Sep 8, 2014
Done.
Half-Shot Sep 9, 2014
Paying for a survey system! BAH, we should get our own!

A game built ported through a wine wrapper should be considered native (even though it's not strictly native) simply because that counts as a Linux sale when you buy it. I should make that clearer in the next one though, it's a good point.

Well anything that is supported by the developers is a good metric to use.
Skully Sep 14, 2014
Where can we see the results???
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