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New Linux Gaming Survey For August

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It's that time of the month again Linux gamers! The new GOL survey for August is now available, so please make sure to fill it in if you have the time.

There have been a number of helpful suggestions, perhaps the most helpful was to write the new survey when publishing the old one so I wouldn't forget what to change. Thankfully, I did that so there were some improvements, but rather predictably, I have now forgotten what they were.

The results of the previous (July) survey will be published in the next few days. Thanks to those who filled that one out!

You can find the link for the new survey here, and please share with other Linux gamers if you can and try and spot the allusive changes! 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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Linas Aug 4, 2015
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I chose "laptop" as my gaming device, which is technically true. Although when I game, I usually connect it to the TV and play from the sofa. So it is more of a "sofa laptop."
Stupendous Man Aug 4, 2015
I had trouble with the type of PC question too: I use a desktop with 3 monitors, 2 for the desk for normal use and certain games that play better that way, and 1 large TV for playing games from the sofa with a controller. My desktop/sofa gaming us about 50/50, depending on the games.
I chose sofa PC though.
ljrk Aug 4, 2015
Not really interested in Shadow of Mordor. I'm too sad it's so far away from the Tolkien universe.


Damn, just had a look in the release calendar.Why do the "best" games start to be released in September? Bad timing, I'm starting university there :-(


Last edited by ljrk on 4 August 2015 at 9:00 am UTC
dubigrasu Aug 4, 2015
Quoting: LeonardKNot really interested in Shadow of Mordor. I'm too sad it's so far away from the Tolkien universe.
Ah, come on :) The game is really a treat for us.
Imagine that is an alternate Tolkien universe :)
ljrk Aug 4, 2015
Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: LeonardKNot really interested in Shadow of Mordor. I'm too sad it's so far away from the Tolkien universe.
Ah, come on :) The game is really a treat for us.
Imagine that is an alternate Tolkien universe :)

Well, I simply can't get on it. If it'd be completely different: Maybe. But I cannot endure this 'a bit Tolkien but actually not quite' way of Mordor :D

I thought about buying it anyway but decided against it... - better saving for American Truck Sim - and waiting for a 'real' Tolkien game. Why not using the Akallabeth as story? Please guys: DO that :D
ezra-s Aug 4, 2015
Nice survey. I already had shadow of Mordor so I didn't have to purchase it, just removed the windows version and started downloading/playing the Linux version.
tuubi Aug 4, 2015
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Fan culture is weird. This is just like dissing a movie because it's not a literal and complete adaptation of whatever book it's based on. So what? Why treat entertainment like holy scripture? It's not heresy, it's just a different story.
MayeulC Aug 4, 2015
Quoting: mboucharI stream my games from my desktop PC to my laptop while I'm on my sofa (with Steam streaming). So, not sure if it counts as Desktop, Laptop or Sofa PC...

I guess that in this case, "Sofa" is the right answer.
Kidding aside, I am planning to do the same... If only the streaming client could be ported to more devices... I already started to look at reverse-engineering the protocol, but it looks quite complex now. I would be interested to start from the first beta, but it's hard to find an outdated client.

Edit : other than that, I am terribly excited about vulkan :-)


Last edited by MayeulC on 4 August 2015 at 11:47 am UTC
Pit Aug 4, 2015
Uhm, UQ1 is a bit irritating. What do you call an emulator? For me that's an environment that makes the software think it is sitting on the regular hardware. That's what a VM does, isn't it?
Which category is dosbox? atari800? M.A.M.E.?
Assuming at least 2 of them would count I chose 'Yes, multiple'

For UQ2 I chose the 'issue solving' answer, the issue is 'steam-only' :D

At least the well-discussed 'primarily' question was easy for me, as I only have one (private) laptop....
HonorEDnlK Aug 4, 2015
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Quoting: bladerunnerWell, my PC is "Desktop" years old ;).

:P Haha.... I just remembered. Basically, one of the changes was adding two completely new questions. One on what device, and another on how old the device is, but then decided to remove the second question because it was too ambiguous (i.e. if it's a desktop then it's difficult to quantify how "new" it is because of upgrades).

I think the best solution to that question would be "when was the last time you upgraded or changed that device" or something along those lines. If anyone has any suggestions for that one, I can re-add it into this survey ASAP. Those two "test" questions weren't going to make it into the final results next month anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's added late this month.

How about asking how much time since one last built or upgraded his/her PC? Only counting some components, like:

Q: When did you last built or upgraded your PC?

A:

☐ 6 months
☑ 6+ months - 2 years
☐ 3 - 4 years
☐ 5 + years

I'm not sure what the best date options would be though :P

Additionally a question of the parts that were upgraded/added within a timeframe. The only problem with that is that let's say someone purchased 1 part each year in lets say the last 4 years would fill in all the part checkboxes on the 2nd question and would still count as a new computer, so the question would need a timeframe for upgrades (let's say 6 months or a year back before the last upgrade).

So it'd be like

Q: "Which of the following components have you upgraded/added within a year since your last PC upgrade? (e.g. last replaced RAM in april 2015 and GPU in september 2014 would count, but anything before april 2014 would not count)

A:
☐ Motherboard
☑ GPU
☑ RAM
☐ CPU

I'd also suggest to count components that could dramatically alter gaming performance, as a lot of stuff is arbitraty when it comes to gaming like, let's say HDD's and SDD's that would improve load times and space but right now they're more of a choice than something required to run games, the mobo is also arbitrary, but it dictates which type of RAM / CPU / GPU it could have, but I'd agree with some counter arguments on this.

Basically in the end those who would select all parts within the last upgrade timeframe would count as a completely new computer(even if they didn't upgrade PSU or HDD but did so with everything else) while the ones who upgraded some parts and not all of them within the timeframe would not count as new computers but could interestingly make another list that would tell us the average upgrade/time ratio.

That's what comes to mind ^^
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