I am pleased to show off a work-in-progress user statistics page that will form part of our new survey system. The old survey was based on google docs which became a bit of a nuisance to manage properly, and it seems it gave people fatigue filling it out. This way, a bunch of information that doesn't change often is easily set by you. It also means you don't need google for something, so that's nice.
To get this out of the way: Why are we not using some script to gather info from your machines? It would take me far longer to learn how to do that and to be honest, the time and effort involved in getting that would probably not be worth it. I also have doubts about how many people would even do it.
I allowed my Patreon supporters to get an early look at it, but I am now pleased to offer all of you a look at this in-progress system.
It uses the data gathered by peoples profiles (so go update them).
The chart/graph system uses the SVGGraph library (same one we use for the GOTY award), which is under the LGPL v3 license. I have been tinkering away at it for a few days, and I personally think it's starting to look pretty cool.
It will probably get wiped a few times along the road, so if you see it blank or come up with errors it will be worth waiting a few minutes to try again.
What is good about it, is that it will automatically run via a cronjob and then store the output in a database. Currently I run it manually, as it's being worked on often to include new graphs and adjust existing graphs. When more complete, it will hopefully run once a month.
No user information (not even your username) is gathered for it, so the results are completely anonymous (honestly they are!).
It will also be possible to include them easily in an article, since I already have that coded in from the GOTY award.
On top of that, it will store each generation separately, so it will be easy to compare and include previous ones :). When I come up with a nice way to do it, I will allow you to select a date to view the statistics of.
Finally, the distribution dropdown list has been moved to the bottom of the User Control Panel to sit with the rest of the PC info section. Makes more sense that it is there. I have also updated the code behind that to make it easier to add more distributions. We also recently added a few like SteamOS and Solus.
Update: You can now set your PC Info to private from your User Control Panel, so it will hide it from profiles and not display a link to grab it in comments.
Check out the user statistics page here.
Let me know what you think for this early WIP preview.
This is only the start of the new system, there will eventually be a monthly page for anonymous users (without needing to be registered/logged in) to fill a survey. This is much easier to do for now to show actual results right away as a proof of concept.
If you like seeing stuff like this, support me on Patreon to allow me to have more time to do it! If you can't, that's cool, if you don't want too, that's cool too! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
To get this out of the way: Why are we not using some script to gather info from your machines? It would take me far longer to learn how to do that and to be honest, the time and effort involved in getting that would probably not be worth it. I also have doubts about how many people would even do it.
I allowed my Patreon supporters to get an early look at it, but I am now pleased to offer all of you a look at this in-progress system.
It uses the data gathered by peoples profiles (so go update them).
The chart/graph system uses the SVGGraph library (same one we use for the GOTY award), which is under the LGPL v3 license. I have been tinkering away at it for a few days, and I personally think it's starting to look pretty cool.
It will probably get wiped a few times along the road, so if you see it blank or come up with errors it will be worth waiting a few minutes to try again.
What is good about it, is that it will automatically run via a cronjob and then store the output in a database. Currently I run it manually, as it's being worked on often to include new graphs and adjust existing graphs. When more complete, it will hopefully run once a month.
No user information (not even your username) is gathered for it, so the results are completely anonymous (honestly they are!).
It will also be possible to include them easily in an article, since I already have that coded in from the GOTY award.
On top of that, it will store each generation separately, so it will be easy to compare and include previous ones :). When I come up with a nice way to do it, I will allow you to select a date to view the statistics of.
Finally, the distribution dropdown list has been moved to the bottom of the User Control Panel to sit with the rest of the PC info section. Makes more sense that it is there. I have also updated the code behind that to make it easier to add more distributions. We also recently added a few like SteamOS and Solus.
Update: You can now set your PC Info to private from your User Control Panel, so it will hide it from profiles and not display a link to grab it in comments.
Check out the user statistics page here.
Let me know what you think for this early WIP preview.
This is only the start of the new system, there will eventually be a monthly page for anonymous users (without needing to be registered/logged in) to fill a survey. This is much easier to do for now to show actual results right away as a proof of concept.
If you like seeing stuff like this, support me on Patreon to allow me to have more time to do it! If you can't, that's cool, if you don't want too, that's cool too! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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edddeduck_feral Jun 1, 2016
Quoting: Dea1993into the gpu driver graphs you also must add Hybrid driver (AMDGPU-PRO, is open and closed)
IMHO I'd stick with calling AMDGPUPRO closed source, the only part that is open is the kernel side (AMDGPU) which doesn't contain any 3D graphics support, it will get you basic unaccelerated graphics in 2D so you can boot the system but nothing else. The actual driver that does all the 3D support and hardware acceleration of graphics is closed source and that's the important bit I would think? AMDGPUPRO is basically Crimson but using the AMDGPU kernel part to load the user space driver instead of fglrx. However you can easily debate this many ways :)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Linux_AMD_graphics_stack.svg
I also think I might be interesting to see the open/closed split per vendor. AMD in particular would be particularly interesting given the recent improvements in Mesa. Nvidia and Intel are pretty much 100% proprietary and 100% open source respectively so would be less interesting. Finally perhaps reporting the version of the drivers people are using would be useful? Given the constant progress drivers are making seeing how fast people upgrade and what drivers are most popular would be interesting.
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Quoting: Kuduzkehpanthis is awesome and more accurate then steams never happening survey form.Best god damned comment on this site. It's not funny, because it is true.
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As requested by Edwin we now show what driver people use split across all, nvidia only and amd only.
Great idea and one we originally did in the old survey so it's good to have it here too!
Great idea and one we originally did in the old survey so it's good to have it here too!
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Quoting: liamdaweAs requested by Edwin we now show what driver people use split across all, nvidia only and amd only.The switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.
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Quoting: tuubiNoted and fixed, Open Source is always first on those now, so the colour and sorting both matches in all three.Quoting: liamdaweAs requested by Edwin we now show what driver people use split across all, nvidia only and amd only.The switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.
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Quoting: liamdaweCool. These charts really underline the awesome progress of AMD's open-source efforts. I'm sure there are a few AMD developers who'd be very happy to see these results. They must be doing something right if such a large percentage of Linux gamers prefer the open-source driver already.Quoting: tuubiThe switched colours and sort order in the AMD chart threw me off a bit. Would be nice if these three tables were all laid out the same, with open source at the top.Noted and fixed, Open Source is always first on those now, so the colour and sorting both matches in all three.
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stickyparadigm Jun 2, 2016
The charts are cool. Would it be possible to additionally add percentages without cluttering up the layout?
Last edited by stickyparadigm on 2 June 2016 at 8:38 pm UTC
Last edited by stickyparadigm on 2 June 2016 at 8:38 pm UTC
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