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GOL Survey Results: February

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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.

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Respondents
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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?
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Question 2 - Did you use Wine to play games last month?
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Question 3 - Did you use a Windows partition for gaming last month?
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Question 4 - What distribution do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 5 - What Desktop Environment do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 6 - Did you change your primary Linux gaming distribution last month?
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Question 7 - What graphics card do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 8 - Which drivers do you use for that graphics card?
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AMD
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Intel
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Nvidia
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Question 9 - What CPU do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 10 - Did you exclusively buy Linux-supported games last month?
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Question 11 - How many Linux games did you buy last month?
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Question 12 - Which of these retailers did you use to buy your Linux games last month?
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Unique Question 1 - Have you bought Dying Light yet?
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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?
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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.
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After spending some years breaking breeze blocks with my head for money and being mocked by strangers, I have found a new purpose: to beat up people for not playing on Linux.
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Liam Dawe Mar 2, 2015
There must be something to KDE, i need to give it another go, and I'm still surprised Cinnamon is so low!
Imants Mar 2, 2015
Quoting: liamdaweThere must be something to KDE, i need to give it another go, and I'm still surprised Cinnamon is so low!

For me Cinnamon crashes too much so I use unity for my main gaming PC. I still keep Mint installed on my father computer and check time to time what changed but for now it is working worse than Ubuntu :(
zimplex1 Mar 2, 2015
I always love looking at these stats. As for Dying Light... I just can't play yet ANOTHER zombie game. The only interesting zombie game to me is project zomboid but that's because it's super challenging and more survival focused. Anyways... Good write-up as always.
chrisq Mar 2, 2015
Why no love for the Enlightenment window manager, it's great :)
aL Mar 2, 2015
I used to rock xfce, I came from the gnome 2 refugee camp. kde was too heavy and not my style... but after hitting a few xfce bugs and without new releases on sight (a new one recently happen) decided to give kde another go.

My machine is beefy enough now and I just want my DE to get out of the way. Kde sports some weird decisions (like the way activities and/or the way the panels work)

But that said, its configurable enough that I set it to my liking without much fuss and pretty much forget what DE im using most of the time for the past 9 months or so.

Who would had thought I would end up using kde... not me...
mao_dze_dun Mar 2, 2015
Omg, Pantheon is less used than SteamOS. Poor Elementary...
Segata Sanshiro Mar 2, 2015
I can vouch for KDE, I've used it ever since Unity replaced Gnome 2 in Ubuntu. Plasma 5 also looks very good so going to upgrade to that soon. For gaming I use XFCE though since I prefer to free up resources for games and I find LXDE a bit too ugly for now.

Quoting: zimplex1As for Dying Light... I just can't play yet ANOTHER zombie game. The only interesting zombie game to me is project zomboid but that's because it's super challenging and more survival focused.

I have to agree with you. As Yahzee put it, "releasing a zombie game is like giving a present wrapped in McDonald's cheeseburger paper - you don't need to look inside to know they're not really trying". That said, Dying Light is a pretty fun game and once they fix it I'll probably put quite a few hours into it. It's kind of like going to see a summer blockbuster, you know what you're getting and it's certainly not high art, but you can still get a good few hours of enjoyment out of it.
fraghopper Mar 2, 2015
The graphs are interesting, I'd kind of like to see the numbers in text form though; much easier to skim.

I also use KDE. As others have said, it's so configurable at this point that you can hide or de-activaite the parts you don't like, design your own desktop, and let it just keep out of your way.
ZeroX1987 Mar 2, 2015
Personally I'm using KDE for over 4 years now. So I obviously join the group recommending it to you Liam. As far as I have seen from planetkde they are really active and plasma 5 is shaping up quite nicely. Really can't wait for the stable release.^^
For everyone using the terminal on a regular basis I recommend to try out the yakuake package (kde's version of the guake terminal of gnome) as well... ;o)

Back to the topic at hand: Just as Fraghopper wrote a separate overview of the numbers (in textform) would be great. Even though I am interested in the overall trends I mostly want to know the current values taken from the survey.
Spl-it Mar 2, 2015
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Quoting: liamdaweThere must be something to KDE, i need to give it another go, and I'm still surprised Cinnamon is so low!

For me, KDE is the only DE that doesn't require me to mess around with anything vsync related and still end up with screen tearing. Games run buttery smooth using KDE's own vsync and disabling any in game vsync.
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