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GOL Survey Results: October

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It’s time to get your monthly fix of stats now that the results for the October (and September) survey are available for you to take a look at and compare with results from previous months.

Firstly, apologies for the late upload of the results, I’ve been a bit busy in real life (it has some pretty good graphics) and also haven’t been able to make a couple of updates and changes to the survey. This month I’m going to just upload the graphs without the commentary to get the results out there.

Some changes

There’s been one big fundamental change this month to the way the survey is presented, and that is that the link to the current survey which normally appears here is gone. From now on, the surveys will be closed for responses two weeks after they open and published that same month, rather than a month and a half later as they have been up until now.

This was basically a leftover of when the survey was split into two articles (one for the new survey and one for the results), but with the split, it makes little sense to continue publishing results a month later so that’s ended now. So this month only, there’s two months for the price of one as both the September and October results are shown.

Coming soon are tables to go with the graphs, and also looking at ways to differentiate gamers who prefer DRM-free, open drivers, etc. to those who game on Steam with proprietary drivers. The first of these should make the results far more readable, while the second should provide some interesting insights into this divide, or maybe if the divide is more of a blurry line.

Please click on the images to enlarge. Once enlarged, you can also cycle through them using the arrows.

Respondents
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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 type of device do you primarily use for Linux gaming?
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Question 8 - What graphics card do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 9 - 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 10 - What CPU do you use on your primary Linux gaming PC?
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Question 11 - Did you exclusively buy Linux-supported games last month?
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Question 12 - How many Linux games did you buy last month?
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Question 13- Which of these retailers did you use to buy your Linux games last month?
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Unique Question (September) - What do you think are the main barriers to Linux gaming becoming mainstream?
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Unique Question (October) - Which are the most important factors you consider when buying a game?
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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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GustyGhost Oct 19, 2015
I'm waiting on those Fall sales before I move back out of question 12's "None" category.
WorMzy Oct 19, 2015
The DE question results took another turn for the worse. :P

Openbox, i3 and i3wm should all be merged into none/custom.
Segata Sanshiro Oct 19, 2015
Quoting: WorMzyThe DE question results took another turn for the worse. :P

Openbox, i3 and i3wm should all be merged into none/custom.

Yeah I don't really understand what happened there since I deleted one or two of them a while back... It could be that Fedso added them back in because he thought they should belong there - I'll ask. Otherwise it might have been a C+P issue or something, I'll sort it out.

Either way, I don't want to get too hung up on the DE and Distribution questions - which for some reason people care the most about. It's a survey about games, not what people are running on their machines. Same reason I refused to split up the Debian-based distributions - that's what DistroWatch is for. Also the reason I've considered removing these questions in the past because they're the source of the most fanboyism and have the most potential stat manipulation through repeat responses.
hummer010 Oct 19, 2015
Quoting: WorMzyThe DE question results took another turn for the worse. :P

Openbox, i3 and i3wm should all be merged into none/custom.

Agreed. I use openbox, and I certainly don't consider it a desktop environment. It's a window manager, just like i3 and i3wm.
Xzyl Oct 19, 2015
Arch based is up to 30% - cinnamon desktop has dropped other than that I have to ask about question 11 with the "didn't buy any games" selection is that newer or are Linux users buying less games?

Is the Intel driver question a joke or are people clueless?
Segata Sanshiro Oct 19, 2015
Quoting: XzylArch based is up to 30% - cinnamon desktop has dropped other than that I have to ask about question 11 with the "didn't buy any games" selection is that newer or are Linux users buying less games?

Is the Intel driver question a joke or are people clueless?

Yes, from what we can deduce people are buying less games but more expensive ones. have a look at the previous couple of surveys for a bit more on that.

The Intel driver question has been covered a lot since its inception as well. I've always asked people to come forward and explain themselves but never got anything on here. The "don't knows" make perfect sense, but the proprietary answers are either Optimus users answering incorrectly or they are using some Intel propriatary blobs for CPU drivers (which do exist and are easily installable on recent *ubuntu distributions).
Apopas Oct 19, 2015
I doubt there are so many i3 users around. Maybe some people confused it with the i3 processor...
Werzaz Oct 20, 2015
i3wm user (and first-time commenter) here. I was always surprised that there are so many of us. However, I have replied "None/Custom" since it was pointed out some months ago. Before that I replied i3wm because I figured that was the interesting information in that question. I was well aware that it is not a DE but then the Steam Big Picture mode is not a DE either imho. After all whether DE or not, the choice can affect how games run, e.g. sometimes fullscreen does not work well in i3.

I don't wish to change anything about the survey since I don't care much about this question. I'm just trying to give some insight as to why one might reply i3 or openbox.

Edit: forgot a "not"... fullscreen can be weird in i3


Last edited by Werzaz on 20 October 2015 at 2:30 pm UTC
Liam Dawe Oct 20, 2015
Debian/Ubuntu is still king then I see :)
Eike Oct 20, 2015
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Quoting: liamdaweDebian/Ubuntu is still king then I see :)

Debian always has been and always will be.

(Ha, I can start a distro war, because we don't know the numbers! :-P )
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