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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 many years of floating through space on the back of a missile, following a successful career in beating people up for not playing Sega Saturn, the missile returned to earth. Upon returning, I discovered to my dismay that the once great console had been discontinued and Sega had abandoned the fight to dominate the world through 32-bit graphical capabilities.

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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Nyamiou Mar 2, 2015
On the third question, you should make it so that the "Yes" answer is at the bottom, because the "I don't have a Windows partition" and "No" are similar answer so it would be better if this was easier to add up those two. Also on question 8, between the different kind of CPU the colors are not always for the same thing (like green is sometimes for proprietary drivers and sometimes for open source drivers) that make it harder to instantly see the differences between the graphs. Also, could you please add "Bundle Stars" to the list of retailers. Aside of that, thank for those interesting graphs that show that less people are using Windows (which is great) but that at least ten percent of people are buying games not supported on Linux while still not using a Windows partition (maybe they have a Mac, or maybe they just have hope) and that people on AMD are not switching to a NVidia graphic card like they should (sorry for trolling but that's a little true, guys on AMD are always complaining about performance issues).
Segata Sanshiro Mar 3, 2015
Quoting: NyamiouOn the third question, you should make it so that the "Yes" answer is at the bottom, because the "I don't have a Windows partition" and "No" are similar answer so it would be better if this was easier to add up those two. Also on question 8, between the different kind of CPU the colors are not always for the same thing (like green is sometimes for proprietary drivers and sometimes for open source drivers) that make it harder to instantly see the differences between the graphs.

I'll pass on the suggestions to fedso, he's the graph guy :)
Hamish Mar 3, 2015
I actually had to admit to buying a Windows game for once in my life, but it was for less than $2 dollars and I bought two Linux supporting games with it on GOG for much more than that.

Still though. :|
Skully Mar 3, 2015
For me KDE is the face of Linux. It has always been my main desktop since 2002 on Debian "woody"
If KDE didn't exist, I probably would never have stayed with linux at all.
I still take a look at all the other desktops on my spare machine when new versions come out. But I can't stand any of them.
I would rather give up computers or use windows.
edo Mar 3, 2015
Quoting: liamdaweThere must be something to KDE, i need to give it another go, and I'm still surprised Cinnamon is so low!
Agree, Cinnamon is for my specific case the best DE. I love KDE, but it always felt unfinished (but probably plasma 5 is in better shape)


Now, related to the question 8 about intel, that question doesn't make any sense, as far as I know the only driver available for linux is the open source, so to ask to the people if they are using the private driver in intel GPU on Linux doesn't make sense. Of course, if I am wrong then I would like to know that.
pd12 Mar 3, 2015
I was thinking it's confusing if the graph colours don't correspond to the respective company logos (nvidia-green, AMD-red, intel-blue) etc.
Is it possible to change the colours to do that?

-From a Kubuntu 14.04 nvidia-proprietary user (the majority of ppl) =P
Caldazar Mar 3, 2015
KDE is like Minecraft, learn "recipes" and build whatever you want.
In form my desktop resembles Unity a lot but in functionality every comparison is ridiculous.

There is a learning curve attached to it of course, not everyone has time for that, but if you're an enthusiast who rather builds his own PC instead of just buying some Dell machine why not extend the fun to your DE?
loggfreak Mar 3, 2015
KDE gives me the least issues and is the most customizable, i've always liked it, i used xfce and cinnamon as well, but no sync to vblank...
+ i like the lancelot menu in KDE

however i've been having issues with menu items not showing when searching inside the menu and some still appear while searching when they are no longer on my system, and i can't find out why that happens
loggfreak Mar 3, 2015
the only downside to KDE is the massively slow boot speed, aside from that it isn't really slow/bloated like many people say
boot speed on KDE is a lot longer than any other DE, though plasma5 is a big improvement in this aspect
fedso Mar 3, 2015
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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro
Quoting: NyamiouOn the third question, you should make it so that the "Yes" answer is at the bottom, because the "I don't have a Windows partition" and "No" are similar answer so it would be better if this was easier to add up those two. Also on question 8, between the different kind of CPU the colors are not always for the same thing (like green is sometimes for proprietary drivers and sometimes for open source drivers) that make it harder to instantly see the differences between the graphs.

I'll pass on the suggestions to fedso, he's the graph guy :)

Noted and added "pin colour to answer" to the TODO list :)
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