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
- 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
- Lag caused some empty questions to appear, removed
- A question about disk encryption and “why do you use other OS” got mixed up
- 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.
More non-binary than female lmao
Yes this is crazy
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!
Its encrypted on the server and decrypted in your browser. Not useful for this survey though
So there are 43+ NixOS users and noone switched away for another OS?
Woot!
I keep pondering switching back to Debbie and every time I get in a fight with … well everything I try to install … And I look at my configuration.nix and sunk cost fallacy sits in.
I don’t really need Splashtop, NinjaRMM, Parsec Server right?
wow I did not expect Linux to be this male dominated
I’m surprised there was any female participation at all.
Done.
I once used CryptPad Form as well, it’s pretty cool.
I didn’t see these questions at all.
- Do you feel represented in the community?
- How do you feel, how could the community improve?
- Do you modify your install in these areas?
I couldn’t find an answer for this question
- Why did you start using Linux? (My answer would be, found it on a magazine)
This question is not distinctive
- Do you use other Operating Systems? (Yes I do use Android but not on a PC)
I would expect “independent” as an answer for these questions
- Where does the distro you use originate from?
- What origin was your FIRST distro from?
Cryptpad still doesn’t support rclone file transfer or at least WebDAV? Was waiting for this for ages…
There’s a few “Your question here” questions…
Yup, oops. Those were caused by lag as the form gets horribly slow at that size, server-side somehow.
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?
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.
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.
Filled out the survey, hope some other people do too. Would be interesting to see how people answered.
You can see the live results!
Thanks for telling me, more people answered than I expected
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.
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.
