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Our Linux & SteamOS gamer survey results for January 2016

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Another month, and another survey done. The latest results are in and the findings are within normal expectations. This leads me to a question I want to ask everyone.

Do you think we should move to do these every 2+ months, rather than every month? This way we may get a better idea of change happening within the Linux gaming community? I am torn on it though, as it's fun to see changes between desktop environments so often.

Also, the graphs are in a newer format which is still being tinkered with.

January results
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A slight dip in the results, again which is a bit annoying and another reason I want to look at not doing it so often.

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Corben Jan 24, 2016
In Safari on iOS the graph's titles are very tiny. So tiny I didn't see them in the first place and thought there weren't any.
Imho a monthly survey is better than a survey every two months, as it will give more fine grained data to look at over time and in the future. I don't think it will affect the number of people participating.
serjor Jan 24, 2016
Nothing new about firefox, no graphs.

Regarding monthly or every two months survey, I vote for the monthly option. It's a five minuts or less survey, that could be filled using the mobile.
Liam Dawe Jan 24, 2016
The new graphs are up, thanks to fedso for fixing them all up. I will respond to suggestions and stuff when I have more time later tonight.
khalismur Jan 24, 2016
Some feedback:
The previous survey results were much better presented than this. Anyone who works with statistics or data display can tell this presentation could be easily improved. Two suggestions I can offer you;

i) When working with normalized data (as in this case) the axis which refer to the distribution, the %, should have a fixed scale along all graphs for easier understanding. The vertical axis in this case was automatically generated for every graph I suppose, but fixing the top value to 100% would be much better;

ii) Makes absolutely no sense to work with more than two or three significant figures. "0.56%", "1.4%", "25%" or even "5.78%" are fine. Now, "78.94%" makes no sense.

Cheers


Last edited by khalismur on 24 January 2016 at 1:23 pm UTC
Donkey Jan 24, 2016
Maybe there could be two kinds of surveys. One full version every second month (like we have now) and a smaller and quicker version for the rest. The small version could remove all the boring questions like desktop, gpu, drivers and then spice things up by adding a few more of the interesting questions (new ones each time).
fedso Jan 24, 2016
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Quoting: khalismuri) When working with normalized data (as in this case) the axis which refer to the distribution, the %, should have a fixed scale along all graphs for easier understanding. The vertical axis in this case was automatically generated for every graph I suppose, but fixing the top value to 100% would be much better;

I'd rather stick to the rule that graph space must be used efficiently. There is no reason to compare graphs side by side anyway so different scale shouldn't affect readability. Of course if the general consensus is to to go up to 100% regardless of the maximum value I'll be happy to comply.

Quoting: khalismurii) Makes absolutely no sense to work with more than two or three significant figures. "0.56%", "1.4%", "25%" or even "5.78%" are fine. Now, "78.94%" makes no sense.

Any one else would like to shoot at the 4th significative digit? ;)
Donkey Jan 24, 2016
Quoting: fedso
Quoting: khalismuri) When working with normalized data (as in this case) the axis which refer to the distribution, the %, should have a fixed scale along all graphs for easier understanding. The vertical axis in this case was automatically generated for every graph I suppose, but fixing the top value to 100% would be much better;

I'd rather stick to the rule that graph space must be used efficiently. There is no reason to compare graphs side by side anyway so different scale shouldn't affect readability. Of course if the general consensus is to to go up to 100% regardless of the maximum value I'll be happy to comply.
No need to go up to 100% as long as the bar numbers are rounded nice and even. Instead of 24% use 25%. 69% could go to 80%. 82% could go all the way up to 100%. It makes things a lot more consistent and more easily readable.
Quoting: fedso
Quoting: khalismurii) Makes absolutely no sense to work with more than two or three significant figures. "0.56%", "1.4%", "25%" or even "5.78%" are fine. Now, "78.94%" makes no sense.

Any one else would like to shoot at the 4th significative digit? ;)
Having the numbers alongside the graphs makes no sense and makes the presentation look to cluttered. Hide them or remove them.
legluondunet Jan 24, 2016
This new graphics are more difficult to read than the old way.
LinuxGamesTV Jan 24, 2016
Hmmmmm, Arch is 4x present in this survey?

Why?
And why only Windows 7 and not 8 and 10?

On the Linuxside, why not only .deb and .rpm based Destributions?
khalismur Jan 25, 2016
Conclusion - the old way was much better.
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