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Seegras Dec 26, 2016
Another piece of hardware one could have: VR Rig.
tuubi Dec 26, 2016
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All of the above suggestions have been made before, apart from @DamonLinuxPL's. My take on these:

Quoting: Doc AngeloUnder "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.

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

Quoting: Blauer_HungerI'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
Liam Dawe Dec 26, 2016
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.
MayeulC Dec 26, 2016
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
Liam Dawe Dec 26, 2016
That's not a bad idea, i will look into something like that.
ziabice Dec 27, 2016
Liam, please add "Deepin" to the Desktop Environments: I'm using it on my Manjaro and is very very good and games friendly.
Doc Angelo 9 years Dec 27, 2016
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: Doc AngeloUnder "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.
tuubi Dec 28, 2016
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Quoting: Doc AngeloOr 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.
Doc Angelo 9 years Dec 28, 2016
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. :)
tuubi Dec 29, 2016
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Quoting: GuestAnybody 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.
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