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Our user survey is now done automatically from your profiles every month. On the 1st of December a fresh lot was generated.

Reminder: Update your profile.

Our newest question about your primary gamepads/controllers has grown quite a bit over last month, with 231 more people answering the question compared to last month. With 502 total people answering that question now, the Steam Controller has the top share at 36% which is quite impressive.

Ubuntu and its spin-offs still remain king over all other distributions too, with them together taking a sweet 50.29%.

This is the most fun to see:
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Out of 1263 people, only 2 are on 32bit.

Note: I noticed the graph numbers are getting cramped at higher levels of people, so I will be adjusting that to shorten it to "1k, 1.2K" or something like that.

It's also nice to see a healthy 68.24% of people do not dual-boot, which surprised me, but that's a damn healthy number to see.

You can view the full Linux gamer statistics at any time here.

If you have any feature suggestions, do let me know and I can add them to the list. I am focusing on a few other things before I get back to adjusting it some more.

I am still working out the best length of time to have data drop-off when it becomes stale. We do log the time and date people last updated their information, so it's easy to do when I think of a good time period for it.

I will also be working on an automatic reminder, that will appear on the site to ask you to update your details or to click if nothing has changed. That way, it will help with old data and keep it in your minds. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Liam Dawe Dec 4, 2016
Quoting: OLucasZanella
Quoting: liamdaweObviously, this is why data from people who haven't updated their profiles in a while won't be included.
I had not updated my profile for some months but I only changed the OS. I think it's a wise idea to put a restriction, however maybe there is nothing to update next time. I probably will be using the same data for some months, but I wouldn't want to be out of the survey (however I did think the old one was very boring and extensive, I'm glad this is now automatic).
Yeah, I will be looking into some kind of a reminder, where people can click if nothing has changed, and another link to direct people to change their details if old.

Easy to do, but I am working on some other site features ATM.
Xpander Dec 4, 2016
maybe make a pop-up at the end of every month for people who log into the site, with the information to update their profile.

might annoy some people though.
Liam Dawe Dec 4, 2016
Quoting: Xpandermaybe make a pop-up at the end of every month for people who log into the site, with the information to update their profile.

might annoy some people though.
I would never do a pop-up, but an announcement bar on the site is probable.
TheRiddick Dec 4, 2016
Hmm, my profile was a bit out of date also, I have recently settled on Manjaro KDE and currently using a 980Ti (I would use two if SLI worked!)

I'll move back to AMD once the 490 comes out, and if it isn't terrible :)
MayeulC Dec 5, 2016
Quoting: Comandante oardoWhat happen with the people that use more than one computer?
Can You add that detail like You did with the monitors?

I believe that this survey is about your main gaming computer, which makes sense.

For example, my second "rig" is a crappy and very old mini netbook which has a 32-bit only atom and 1GB of RAM (upgraded the RAM a bit less than 6 months ago) I still play games such as Super Hexagon on it, from time to time :D

@TheRiddick: I am personally waiting to see how vega turns out.
Shmerl Dec 5, 2016
Quoting: TheRiddickI'll move back to AMD once the 490 comes out, and if it isn't terrible :)

480 (Polaris) is already quite good, so I expect Vega to be a blast. They plan to focus on improved performance / lower power consumption there, which they didn't do in Polaris despite shrinking the die to 14nm transistors.


Last edited by Shmerl on 5 December 2016 at 12:22 am UTC
scaine Dec 5, 2016
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Might be nice to get an email (or banner, like you suggested) a month or two before you drop off the survey results.

And if you do drop off, it would be nice to see that boldly displayed on your profile page, so that if you visit it, it will remind you to update it.

I really, really like not being asked to complete monthly surveys. They were getting a big "again??" by the time you changed to the profile method. Much better this way.
Liam Dawe Dec 5, 2016
Quoting: scaineAnd if you do drop off, it would be nice to see that boldly displayed on your profile page, so that if you visit it, it will remind you to update it.
Now that is an interesting suggestion! Will have to make a note of that one! Thanks :)
boltronics Dec 5, 2016
The Steam Controllers have finally made their way down under to Australian EB Games stores, so I picked one up (profile updated). Still can't order them through the Steam client, but that's not a big problem.

It took a bit of messing around to get it working nicely, and took some more time to get used to it (I kept accidentally hitting the reverse-side bumpers). I found the Binding of Isaac to be a good game to test it out.
neffo Dec 5, 2016
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: ShabbyXIf you allow one to stay logged in for a long time, with the usual "Remember Me" checkbox or something (checkbox disable by default), that would definitely increase my activity here.
We do have that already, it's how I and most likely most people stay logged in here. Steam login is an extra.

Is the Steam login used for anything?

It'd be cool to poll public profiles to get of number/percentage Linux games in the library.
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