Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

It would be interesting also to have an option to see trends over a period of time.

Would be nice if the profile page showed when last (perhaps both date and duration) the user's stats were updated. (E.g: Last updated: 25/11/2016, 1 month ago)

Would be nice if the profile page showed when last (perhaps both date and duration) the user's stats were updated. (E.g: Last updated: 25/11/2016, 1 month ago)

Fab idea, will add it as soon as I am back.

How often would you recommend updating?

How often would you recommend updating?

Just make sure your info is up to date, and you won't have to worry about it. Maybe hit the update button every time you see one of these reminders even if nothing's changed.

I wish I had new hardware ;) Still waiting on (Ry)zen to see how it will impact the market.

Remark: maybe wait after people have spend their holiday money ? :) Might also be interesting to see the results a few months after Ryzen.


Last edited by Qantourisc on 25 December 2016 at 4:22 pm UTC

Under "Main gaming machine" you can choose between Desktop, Laptop and Sofa-PC. I think "Desktop with optional TV connection" and "Laptop with optional TV connection" should be added to that list. It's not unusual to connect the living room with a simple HDMI+USB combination, so that you can choose where you want to play. With the Steam Link and Steam Machines it is getting more common to do this.

"Do you dual-boot with a different operating system?"

You should add also new options. "Yes, other Linux" :D

Please add "Do you use a virtual machine for gaming?" and the options "No", "Yes", "Yes, with dedicated graphics card".
I'd also like to see clickable CPU and GPU types with links to ark.intel.com, products.amd.com and nvidia.com in "View PC info" next to a comment. A nice feature would also be a text field for the Motherboard.

You should consider getting a "passthrough VM" option in place/in addition of/to dual-boot.

Another piece of hardware one could have: VR Rig.

All of the above suggestions have been made before, apart from @DamonLinuxPL's. My take on these:

Under "Main gaming machine" you can choose between Desktop, Laptop and Sofa-PC. I think "Desktop with optional TV connection" and "Laptop with optional TV connection" should be added to that list.

Any laptop and desktop can be connected to a TV screen. That doesn't really give useful information about the hardware. I think if you mainly play with a controller sitting in front of the TV, you should probably pick Sofa-PC as your main gaming machine. Unless you mean streaming from a Windows host, in which case it's not relevant.

Please add "Do you use a virtual machine for gaming?" and the options "No", "Yes", "Yes, with dedicated graphics card".

You should consider getting a "passthrough VM" option in place/in addition of/to dual-boot.

These are just alternate ways to play games on Windows (assuming you don't mean running a different Linux distro in a VM), so not that useful info to collect in a Linux gaming survey. Maybe combine them into "Do you play games on a different operating system by dual booting or in a virtual machine". I dunno.

I'd also like to see clickable CPU and GPU types with links to ark.intel.com, products.amd.com and nvidia.com in "View PC info" next to a comment. A nice feature would also be a text field for the Motherboard.

Forcing users to choose an exact CPU/GPU model is a bit overkill and would make filling the form a bit cumbersome. The harder this is, the less people will bother filling it. I guess it could be an optional way to fill the text field. The MB model would be useful if this data was for technical support or benchmark purposes, but it's not so maybe not.


Last edited by tuubi on 26 December 2016 at 10:49 am UTC

Your PC info page now shows the date you last updated.

As for listing clickable CPU and GPU types, that will likely not happen as that will require me to build/gather a database of all possible CPUs and GPUs that people might have.

It could also be nice to embedded the system configuration profile page in those reminder articles.

At least when I browse on my mobile phone, I tend to minimise the number of pages I visit :)

Edit: Maybe just the signature image with a "This is still my config" button, to make it concise & "simpler" for you.


Last edited by MayeulC on 26 December 2016 at 5:49 pm UTC

That's not a bad idea, i will look into something like that.

Liam, please add "Deepin" to the Desktop Environments: I'm using it on my Manjaro and is very very good and games friendly.

Under "Main gaming machine" you can choose between Desktop, Laptop and Sofa-PC. I think "Desktop with optional TV connection" and "Laptop with optional TV connection" should be added to that list.

Any laptop and desktop can be connected to a TV screen. That doesn't really give useful information about the hardware. I think if you mainly play with a controller sitting in front of the TV, you should probably pick Sofa-PC as your main gaming machine. Unless you mean streaming from a Windows host, in which case it's not relevant.

Does the question want to know in what kind of situation I am playing? (On my desk with my desktop machine / on my laptop because I play at different locations / in my living room with a computer connected to a big screen)

Or is it intended to know about the hardware? In this case, Desktop-PC and Sofa-PC don't tell a lot about the hardware in the case. Because either of these could be quite high end or low end.

Or is it intended to know about the hardware? In this case, Desktop-PC and Sofa-PC don't tell a lot about the hardware in the case. Because either of these could be quite high end or low end.

It think this one is mostly about the situation as you put it, or the type of your main Linux gaming setup. There are other questions focused on actual hardware.

In that case maybe a multiple selection would be nice. Because I can't say that I'm "mainly" a desktop gamer, of a sofa gamer. Games which favor Keyboard+Mouse are played at my desk, any other games which are designed to be played with a gamepad are being played on my comfy sofa.

It doesn't matter so much, but I just wanted to give some feedback about this. :)

Anybody here likes the idea of including the continent where the GOL member resides?

North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antarctica

I think it's good to know how Linux gamers are distributed around the world :)

Seeing as we're all penguins, I'd bet Antarctica is surprisingly well represented. Although I think most species actually live in places like South America, Australia and New Zealand.

But seriously, I guess this could be useful. Though I don't know if GOL's userbase is exactly representative of the larger Linux gaming community. The English-speaking world and the western countries would most likely be overrepresented in comparison to the actual market. But developers should understand this. And maybe this is interesting to some GOL users.