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To get an idea of this community, and to try the cool CryptPad Survey feature, I created a pretty big Linux usage survey!

The data is anonymized and the content encrypted on the server. I plan on publishing the results.

Have fun!

It works on hardened Firefox on a phone, but the experience is better on a PC.

live results

Notes

  1. I am very sorry but the question “it is okay that my above message gets published” cannot reasonably be respected, as the text is just dumped into a single block
  2. Lag caused some empty questions to appear, removed
  3. A question about disk encryption and “why do you use other OS” got mixed up
  4. i changed the wording of some questions or added more options, so there may be duplicate old answers or too little new ones. You can edit your submission and update your answers.
  • dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    14 hours ago

    why did you start using linux

    because it was my only option for newer software, my pc is too old for newer windows (also because of it having no internet so all my browsing was mobile)

    does your hardware meet win11 requirements

    nope

    do you use an immutable distro

    yes on mobile (android); nope on pc (puppylinux isnt immutable, it even autologins you as root at boot)

    do you use propietary software

    dude i literally use windows and msdos its pretty clear i do (even if lately my daily driver is linux and im starting to go more and more into the open stuff)

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    264·
    5 months ago

    So aside for a few wording and technical issues, something stuck out to me. Using “special” to refer to neurodivergence is a bit problematic and potentially dogwhistley because of the historical contexts it’s been used in to dismiss and look down on people. And even if it wasn’t, it’s a bit ambiguous; can someone who feels that they are in touch with their “spiritual side” consider themselves to have a “special brain”?

    If you’re wondering about neurodivergence, probably better to just ask “Are you neurodivergent?” rather than using euphemisms.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      101·
      5 months ago

      I am neurodivergent myself.

      The word is complicated but for sure, I may rephrase that. Not sure if this will mess up the results though, it may create a second question out of it.

      I think special is a positive word.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    5 months ago

    Why the fuck does a survey need a loading screen with a progress bar?

    Holy shit, people, some HTML with input fields and a submit button does not need to be this over engineered!

  • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    Filled out the survey, hope some other people do too. Would be interesting to see how people answered.

  • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    183·
    5 months ago

    Sorry, but how are a lot of the questions relevant for this community?

    Especially concerning the (family) income, age, being neurodivergent etc. These are sensitive information and seem more fitting for a market survey/selling ads.

    What is your goal with the answers? What are your research questions? How will the answers help this community?

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      26·
      5 months ago

      I think they are relevant to getting to know this community. The questions are optional.

      So going into this survey my idea of this community was

      • Linux mint or arch users
      • male
      • 25 average
      • often neurodivergent
      • more income than average as tech stuff is kinda educated friendly

      I am neurodivergent myself. I am interested if free software actually reaches poorer people. I am interested how diverse we are.

      • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        14·
        5 months ago

        Thanks for your answer, I guess fair enough. ;-)

        Good luck for your survey!

  • Magister@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    Why did you start using linux? it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist, I used un*x at uni, of course I couldn’t install HPUX, AIX, Solaris or IRIX on my 386, so I installed Linux. There was minix but it was not free. Also BSD was tempting.

    Origin? A couple of floppy images downloaded from usenet :) there was no distro really.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      9·
      5 months ago

      it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist

      Wow, that’s a pretty narrow gap. The 80386 started mass production in 1986 and Windows 3.0 (the first actually usable one) came out in 1990.

      I refused to use Windows until Win95 and even then I was experimenting with OS/2. In 1997 I installed Slack 3.4 and have been around every since. I’m currently running Linux Mint but I sorta miss SuSe and may go back to it.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      2·
      5 months ago

      If you were using linux in the 1980s you were way ahead of the curve.

  • k_rol@lemmy.ca
    9·
    5 months ago

    Some questions I wish I could say because it’s open source or I believe in open source projects

  • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    5 months ago

    Just to note, Kali is a downstream release of Debian Testing, not Ubuntu. Also for question 55 you didn’t include “git clone and build binary from src”.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      5 months ago

      Thanks, but poorly changing this now would cause breakage.

      Yes forgot source install completely, thats an issue.

  • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    5 months ago

    Some of the questions about distros don’t take into account those of us who have been using Linux since the mid-90s. Your scope here seems to be directed at the last decade or so.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    7·
    5 months ago

    There are some issues with some questions: empty ones (variant 1, variant 2, variant 3 etc) and toggles where radio buttons would be more appropriate