GOL Survey Results: February

The results for the February survey are now available for you to take a look at and compare with results from previous months.

You can find the new survey for March here, so please fill that out if you haven’t already.

Please click on the images to enlarge. Once enlarged, you can also cycle through them using the arrows.

Respondents


Many thanks to the 926 people who took the time to complete the survey! That’s around 100 more than the January survey and near the 1000 mark which I would like to keep close to.

Question 1 - Do you currently use Linux as your primary PC gaming platform?


Question 2 - Did you use Wine to play games last month?


Question 3 - Did you use a Windows partition for gaming last month?


Question 4 - What distribution do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?


Question 5 - What Desktop Environment do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?


Question 6 - Did you change your primary Linux gaming distribution last month?


Question 7 - What graphics card do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?


Question 8 - Which drivers do you use for that graphics card?


AMD


Intel


Nvidia


Question 9 - What CPU do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?


Question 10 - Did you exclusively buy Linux-supported games last month?


Question 11 - How many Linux games did you buy last month?


Question 12 - Which of these retailers did you use to buy your Linux games last month?


Unique Question 1 - Have you bought Dying Light yet?


It seems like February’s AAA release didn’t have a lot of takers (only 7.5% of respondents in fact). However, another 40% of respondents plan to get Dying Light at some point so the game certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. Perhaps that’s a lesson to the AAA game industry that if they want to charge the standard £40 at launch, then they should have the decency to do some serious QA first.

Unique Question 2 - How have your experiences been with AAA titles on launch in the last year?


I was perhaps a bit too ambiguous with this question and neglected to take into consideration that a lot of people simply don’t buy games at launch, yet alone pre-order. To make up for that, I added a unique question about pre-orders to the March survey.

Nonetheless, these results show that in general, Linux gamers seem to have more positive experiences than negative with launch titles. This either means that developers are either doing a pretty good job at porting or that many of you are wise enough check GOL or forums before buying games to see how well they work, or most likely a combination of both. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.