Another month, and another survey done. The latest results are in and the findings are within normal expectations. This leads me to a question I want to ask everyone.
Do you think we should move to do these every 2+ months, rather than every month? This way we may get a better idea of change happening within the Linux gaming community? I am torn on it though, as it's fun to see changes between desktop environments so often.
Also, the graphs are in a newer format which is still being tinkered with.
January results
A slight dip in the results, again which is a bit annoying and another reason I want to look at not doing it so often.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Do you think we should move to do these every 2+ months, rather than every month? This way we may get a better idea of change happening within the Linux gaming community? I am torn on it though, as it's fun to see changes between desktop environments so often.
Also, the graphs are in a newer format which is still being tinkered with.
January results
A slight dip in the results, again which is a bit annoying and another reason I want to look at not doing it so often.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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On the Linuxside, why not only .deb and .rpm based Destributions?
This is too broad to even make sense. going further... what is arch? rpm or deb?
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I think a monthly survey is way to frequent to be honest. You have tried it out and it should be obvious now with 90% of the answers that you catch fluctuations, not trends (which should be the wished for result). Personally I have stopped answering these surveys because they're too frequent and it annoys me. Consider switching to 1 survey every 3 month.
Also the illustration is quite improvable. A dashed line at 1039, or 38% in an other example? what makes these numbers so special?
A yes/no question does not need a graphical display of both possible answers. Same holds for many others, it just gets overloaded.
Just trying to help.
Also the illustration is quite improvable. A dashed line at 1039, or 38% in an other example? what makes these numbers so special?
A yes/no question does not need a graphical display of both possible answers. Same holds for many others, it just gets overloaded.
Just trying to help.
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ElectricPrism Jan 25, 2016
On the Linuxside, why not only .deb and .rpm based Destributions?
This is too broad to even make sense. going further... what is arch? rpm or deb?
This question confuses me. Both .deb and .rpm are both zipped files and vary slightly different.
That's why alien exists to convert RPM to Deb.
Arch is tar.xz and Arch AUR installs both RPM and DEB when someone writes a wrapper around something like XMind.deb - the important part is that Pacman knows which files have been added to the root file tree incase it needs to remove the package.
Actually PPA/Launchpad hell is one major reason I left debian based distros, PPAs destabilized my system nearly half a dozen times.
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The distribution question got invalid Results, "Arch" "ArchLinux" and "archlinux" should all be counted in ArchBased
Also the "number of game question is not easilly readable, maybe adding a mean number woudl be nice.
Also the "number of game question is not easilly readable, maybe adding a mean number woudl be nice.
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I don't really find the current graphs hard to read or anything. Three things though:
+1 for round numbers on the y-axis (2,4,7,9% doesn't make sense at all, even more so when the distances between the bars are the same, yet are rounded to different numbers)
-1 for always going up to 100% - blank space above the highest value is a waste.
Also, maybe reformat the months to look like:
okt nov dec jan
15 15 15 16
+1 for round numbers on the y-axis (2,4,7,9% doesn't make sense at all, even more so when the distances between the bars are the same, yet are rounded to different numbers)
-1 for always going up to 100% - blank space above the highest value is a waste.
Also, maybe reformat the months to look like:
okt nov dec jan
15 15 15 16
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Maybe there could be two kinds of surveys. One full version every second month (like we have now) and a smaller and quicker version for the rest. The small version could remove all the boring questions like desktop, gpu, drivers and then spice things up by adding a few more of the interesting questions (new ones each time).
I want to second this. The "standard" question may be put even less frequent IMHO, while I'm all interested in many of the special questions.
I feel the survey is quite Linux centric and not so gaming/SteamOS centric. Maybe interests have shifted in the last years? I'm much more interested in hearing how many people are using the Steam Controller e. g. than how many are using which DE...
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