The last GOL Survey results of our Linux & SteamOS user survey for 2015, wow what a year! The next survey will be available on January 1st and run for two weeks as usual.
I don't really have many comments to make on it right now, as there's not really any shocks.
Respondents
A small dip here, nothing to worry about, as the numbers are still pretty good overall.
I'm going to be honest, I actually thought this number would be higher. Even I have started to use Wine again for some older games. I refuse to lock myself out of old titles I already own and love simply because I am on Linux now.
I will be really shocked if this ever really changes more than it is already.
Remember our sales page folks!
This one most surprised me. Then I had a think about it, and our audience here mostly build their own, or are happy with their PC. To get this moving we need to expand the reach of the survey really.
If any questions are missing, let me know. It's hard to keep track of so many images all at once and in the order they go in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I don't really have many comments to make on it right now, as there's not really any shocks.
Respondents
A small dip here, nothing to worry about, as the numbers are still pretty good overall.
I'm going to be honest, I actually thought this number would be higher. Even I have started to use Wine again for some older games. I refuse to lock myself out of old titles I already own and love simply because I am on Linux now.
I will be really shocked if this ever really changes more than it is already.
Remember our sales page folks!
This one most surprised me. Then I had a think about it, and our audience here mostly build their own, or are happy with their PC. To get this moving we need to expand the reach of the survey really.
If any questions are missing, let me know. It's hard to keep track of so many images all at once and in the order they go in. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Looks like arch is growing :)
It's funny how 5 DEs have an almost identical share
It's funny how 5 DEs have an almost identical share
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linux_gamer Dec 22, 2015
Almost all movement seems to be statistical noise. But the unique questions are interesting!
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Looks like arch is growing :)
It actually shrunk this month vs. last month (both in real numbers, and percentage).
Liam, could you add the "Survey" tag to the last results (here, it wasn't too hard to find the article, but it could've been easier if it was tagged like this one.
Last edited by WorMzy on 22 December 2015 at 10:54 pm UTC
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Segata Sanshiro Dec 22, 2015
I bet any money that the extra 5% of people buying Windows games is made up entirely of people who couldn't resits and bought Fallout 4. Can't blame them really, we'll probably never see it on Linux, which makes me sad.
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GustyGhost Dec 23, 2015
Looks like arch is growing :)
It's funny how 5 DEs have an almost identical share
A testament to a healthy, diverse set of interfaces competing with eachother. The same can't be said for the distributions category which appears to be Debian/Arch dominated.
Last edited by GustyGhost on 23 December 2015 at 12:56 am UTC
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Looks like arch is growing :)
It actually shrunk this month vs. last month (both in real numbers, and percentage).
Liam, could you add the "Survey" tag to the last results (here, it wasn't too hard to find the article, but it could've been easier if it was tagged like this one.
Done, sorry about that.
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I've been playing Star Wars The Old Republic a lot the past few months on my Windows system.
Last edited by Aryvandaar on 23 December 2015 at 9:34 am UTC
Last edited by Aryvandaar on 23 December 2015 at 9:34 am UTC
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A testament to a healthy, diverse set of interfaces competing with eachother. The same can't be said for the distributions category which appears to be Debian/Arch dominated.
The first, I'm happy about. For my personal options, but it's also convenient for new users to be able to pick a DE that suits them.
The second, I don't know. Too much different distro's with too much different ways of doing things can make it hard to find your way. Around the system, or to resources that apply to your system. But as I said, I don't really know, never tried anything other than Ubuntu/Debian.
Edit:
Just to clarify, I feel like options 'under the hood' aren't going to matter much to most end-users. It can be confusing though, did I pick the right one?
Last edited by lvlark on 24 December 2015 at 9:59 am UTC
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I bet any money that the extra 5% of people buying Windows games is made up entirely of people who couldn't resits and bought Fallout 4. Can't blame them really, we'll probably never see it on Linux, which makes me sad.
Right with you there, i think the ones who will never turn to the "right" side are Bethesda and Blizzard, good riddance i don't really like their games anyway.
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Looks like arch is growing :)
It's funny how 5 DEs have an almost identical share
A testament to a healthy, diverse set of interfaces competing with eachother. The same can't be said for the distributions category which appears to be Debian/Arch dominated.
Except when you factor in the fact that a number of these DEs are based on GNOME. When you do so, you find that nearly 50% of the DE share consists of GNOME-based environments. When you also consider how non-GNOME based systems like Xfce are nevertheless using Gtk, it becomes clear that the overwhelming majority of people are using Gtk over Qt.
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Hey there!
Will past survey data be eventually "open sourced"? It would be cool for us data geeks out there to do some corrolations and other studies with it.
Will past survey data be eventually "open sourced"? It would be cool for us data geeks out there to do some corrolations and other studies with it.
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Looks like arch is growing :)
It's funny how 5 DEs have an almost identical share
A testament to a healthy, diverse set of interfaces competing with eachother. The same can't be said for the distributions category which appears to be Debian/Arch dominated.
for a long time Debian based distros have been catered to "ease of use" more-so than other distributions. but once you've gotten good experience with Linux some users tend to move to Arch or Gentoo for a more tailored experience and the rolling release is nice as well.
Fedora's only drawback is how it caters to free(dom) software and if you want non-free add-ons such as proprietary drivers you have to use a separate repo, mainly rpmfusion. which is like adding a ppa in Debian/Ubuntu.
Plus there are a lot more Ubuntu based distros than any other distribution. Although there are a number of up and coming distros that use Arch as a base but add their own flare of "ease of use" applications (Manjaro, KaOS and Antergos) or a new base built from the ground up like the Solus Project. Then there is the very easy to use Architect installer for Arch.
In time I think the distributions percentages will move around a lot like the DEs are as these other distributions become more mature.
Last edited by neowiz73 on 29 December 2015 at 8:36 am UTC
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