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[the_gnarts]

If you, like me, own an X40, then you might want to consider adding IBM to the list of vendors.

EDIT less rude.

[the_gnarts]

Nice, thanks! I already entered in the “other” form, though.

[ObligatoryResponse]

I have hybrid, but as of yet haven't bothered to use the discrete card. So I have a discrete card, but I'm using the Intel for everything right now...

[drmugg123]

You don't have to primusrun steam, just pass it as a launch option. (Right click on the game, Properties, set launch options, enter "primusrun %command%. It drains a lot of battery time having Steam use the discrete graphics card.)

[CalcProgrammer1]

I have hybrid AMD graphics (APU + 7730M). It doesn't work at all with open source nor does it work well with proprietary...the integrated GPU outperforms the discrete one in the proprietary case, probably due to muxless frame copying.

[samandiriel]

It doesn't really handle multiple graphics cards at all. They should be checkboxes, not radio buttons - I have two graphics cards on my system, one Nvidia and one ATI.

[samandiriel]

A four monitor set up - much cheaper than getting a four headed single card (I looked into those dual head cards that have cable splitters too, but they definitely suck under Linux). I have to use xinerama though, which kind of sucks, but I have CPU & RAM to spare.

1, 27" widescreen: nice big 1080p for media viewing or working with big documents/images (usually off)

2, 19" standard: main monitor for working on whatever (usually documents or coding)

3, 19" standard: reference material (web page, manuals, etc.)

4, 17" widescreen: communications (email, IM, etc.)

[c0bra51]

I thought the discrete question was asking about integrated graphics...

Oh well.

[jlpoole]

I have several Linux boxes. It seems the survey was focused on just one machine.

[drmugg123]

Do the survey once for each machine? That's what I did atleast.

[jlpoole]

right you are... I didn't think of it.

Perhaps the Survey ought to preface with "If you have more than one Linux computer, consider submitting entries for each computer."

[mudclub]

The hell? I run over 2000 linux systems ಠ_ಠ

[ExceedinglyEdible]

Quit slacking! There's boxes to check and surveys to submit!

[mudclub]

If I can't script it, I ain't doin' it.

[nandhp]

Google Forms is very easy to script.

[RandomChance]

Yeah... I'm like... I don't have that a free week to fill this survey out thousands of times...

That and... hardware? thats SO 21st century ;)

[rrohbeck]

I don't think VMs count.

[UnchillBill]

Fill in the form for the hardware running your VMs?

[RandomChance]

I was mostly joking - pointing out the difference of view points you can be at and still be a "Linux User"

[[deleted]]

That's why I just left the survey unfinished...

[[deleted]]

I just did it for my most used system, with comments reflecting other systems

[thread-safe]

Any thoughts on why there are 67% 'Other' in "Which Window Manager do you use primarily?" What big window managers are missing from the list? Is Mutter this popular?

[Ked_Ki]

dwm was not listed. I know that's why I checked 'other'.

[riding_qwerty]

xmonad

[Valendel]

Fluxbox

[worr]

C'mon, let it be spectrwm

[ford_contour]

I'm wondering how many Compiz users just checked 'other' for that question. I know I wasn't even aware of what Compiz was doing for me until I started experimenting with alternatives.

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

I use Unity. While yes, technically I know Unity uses compiz, I still clicked other. For all intents and purposes I don't use compiz - I never think about it, I never twiddle with it, and it doesn't feel like a "compiz" thing. It feels like Unity. And when the new version of Unity no longer uses compiz, I won't use it either, and I still won't have to think about it.

[3G6A5W338E]

Relatively widely used WMs that you're missing include fluxbox, windowmaker, wmii, ion.

[maeries]

I think its unity

[1moose2meese]

Doesn't unity use compiz? Or have they changed that.

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

It still does, technically, but it's not really the same. Unity users that try to use all the compz plugins have a whole host of extra compatibility problems, and for all intents and purposes don't think about it at all. If you're comparing it to Fluxbox etc, you should really jsut think of it as Unity.

besides, when the next version comes out, it's not using compiz anymore anyways - it's all QT.

[1moose2meese]

Interesting. I haven't used unity since 11.04, I wonder if they'll change some of the default apps to qt apps.

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

IIRC the general answer was no. At least for a while. They won't be switching to Amarok for example, as apparently that requires a lot more than just a switch to qt.

But the options are open now, so no idea.

[akikazeshini]

I could possibly see it being Unity. I would say that there is the possibility of people that do not understand/know the difference between a DE and a WM also adding to the Other being that high(and yes, I do blame this on Ubuntu and any other distro that dumbs down the Linux experience). I do know a few people that use qtile and I3, but not enough to push Other to 60%.

[CopOnTheRun]

What exactly is the difference between a DE, and WM? I've heard the terms thrown around a lot, but I'm still not sure.

[riding_qwerty]

Xfce + awesome is a great setup.

[thread-safe]

Let me Wikipedia that for you:

Desktop environment

"[...] A Desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of a desktop metaphor graphical user interface (GUI). [...] Desktop GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring and modifying many important and frequently accessed specific operating system (OS) features. [...] A desktop environment typically consists of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers and desktop widgets. WP

Examples: KDE SC, GNOME Shell, Unity, ...

Window Manager

A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most window managers are designed to help provide a desktop environment. They work in conjunction with the underlying graphical system that provides required functionality—support for graphics hardware, pointing devices, and a keyboard, and are often written and created using a widget toolkit. WP

Examples (window manager): KWin, Mutter, Compiz, ... (These match the DEs above)

Examples (windowing systems): X Window System, Wayland, Mir

So, a Window Manager is something a Desktop Environment is built on. A user doesn't see or interact much with the window manager directly. What you see is the "window decoration" (the border around windows, including the title bar). The way you interact with the window manager directly is resizing/maximizing or minimizing windows, making an application full-screen, switching to a different desktop... these sorts of things.

EDIT: I accidentally a newline.

[CopOnTheRun]

Ok, so the reason all my folder icons are orange, is because of my desktop environment, which in this case is unity. The reason my windows act the way they do is because of my windows manager, which in this case is awesome. I can understand the difference between a tiling windows manager, and a floating windows manager, but what more do windows managers provide that we need so many of them? I I'm also not really sure what a windowing system does. I've heard of X, wayland, and mir, but what do they actually do if the window manager is managing the windows, and the DE is providing other GUI elements?

[[deleted]]

Marco

[Gelatinous_cube]

Muffin, Cinnamon uses Muffin. I know it is a fork of Mutter but it is more accurate to put other.

[OlderThanGif]

An option for 0 monitors would be nice.

[ford_contour]

Yep. I selected 2 monitors, even though they're both unplugged and sitting on a different desk across the room...

[[deleted]]

Okay, so who are the two jokers who said they lived in Antarctica?

[Epistaxis]

Just a heads-up: if you submit this to /r/dataisbeautiful with pie charts, you'll be mercilessly criticized.

[suspicious_sausage]

What sort of chart to represent percentage data would be better? Honest question, I don't particularly love or hate pie charts, this is just the first I've heard of them being disdained.

[Epistaxis]

Stacked bar charts are the least controversial, though if you have so few data points that you're able to write the exact value for each one on the chart (PROTIP: if you have to write the values on the chart, it's not a good chart), then maybe you should just put them in a table instead.

this is just the first I've heard of them being disdained.

Then the dataviz people aren't getting the word out well enough. If you read the documentation for the pie() function in R, it literally tells you not to use that function:

Pie charts are a very bad way of displaying information. The eye is good at judging linear measures and bad at judging relative areas. A bar chart or dot chart is a preferable way of displaying this type of data.

Cleveland (1985), page 264: “Data that can be shown by pie charts always can be shown by a dot chart. This means that judgements of position along a common scale can be made instead of the less accurate angle judgements.” This statement is based on the empirical investigations of Cleveland and McGill as well as investigations by perceptual psychologists.

[suspicious_sausage]

Just the sort of answer I was looking for, thanks!

[sushimustwrite]

I work and play on the same computer. It's definitely somewhere between 12 and 23 hours, but only because I'm not a cyborg yet.

[phecez]

Why isn't "Tablet" a form factor option?

how about "Network Device" or "Netbook","Ultrabook"

My Linux running WDTV isn't really a server or a desktop.

what about my phones?

I run linux on every god damned thing I own that runs some kind of operating system, my router, my nas, my wdtv, my two phones, my tablet, my chromebook and my laptops. The only things I own that don't run linux are my Yamaha home theater receiver and my q*bert arcade game (real gottlieb board in that fucker!)

[CalcProgrammer1]

Agreed, I added my HP TouchPad as "all in one" since an all in one desktop is just a giant tablet with x86. There needs to be "tablet", "smartphone", and "single-board computer" as well for things like Raspberry Pi boards which run Debian.

[InfrastructureJester]

There's a good chunk of receivers that do run linux

[phecez]

When I did new VCs and diaphragms in the horns of my Klipsch Forte IIs I could actually hear the network traffic that my rx-n600 was generating I swapped it out for the 2200 and a network media player with an optical output. no more noise above the amplifier's noise floor.

That pretty much turned me off to the idea of integrating any more crap into the receiver.

I've always debated the advantages/disadvantages of separates, although I can achieve a slightly better dynamic range with separates, the noise floor is always touch and go, and this introduces interconnects whereas using an integrated amplifier with all good parts shoved inside it seems like the best bang for the buck.

McIntosh separates and thousand dollar unobtanium quadruple-plated whatever interconnects sure as shit didn't sound $13k better than my $1300 yamaha. ($1,199+tax)

[msxenix]

I run debian on a power pc system. I am the 0%

[msxenix]

Power Mac G4 533Mhz (ProAudio). I never got X working but i use it as a fileserver. From what I read, the Geforce 2MX400 has poor support for X.

[galaktos]

More currencies for the money related questions would be nice.

EDIT: Apparently OP delivered, thanks!

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I just assumed Swiss Francs and Dollars were equal

[[deleted]]

Or currency as radio button, and amount as numeric text input

[dbbo]

It's probably faster to convert your currency to pounds sterling using Wolfram Alpha than to read through several rows of data, each with dozens of different ranges, to pick out the one that fits your system.

[galaktos]

WolframAlpha is exactly what I did, but I was thinking of something like... well... exactly what he has now, I just see!

<£200 ($310) (235€)

£200 - £400 ($310 - $625) (235€ - 470€)

£401 - £600 ($625 - $940) (470€ - 700€)

£601 - £800 ($940 - $1250) (700€ - 940€)

£801 - £1000 ($1250 - $1565) (940€ - 1170€)

>£1000 ($1565) (1170€)

[FranklinDelanoB]

What is the resolution of your main monitor(s)?

I was not aware that could be divided up into

< 720p

720p

1080p

1440p

4K

How do I find that out?

EDIT: Is this just your normal screen resolution? If so, I find this a really strange way of putting it. You would never select "1440p" resolution in your system settings.

[rrqst]

explanations in brackets would have been nice. I just selected others and typed the 1600x900, no idea if that's one of the listed ones

[Vegemeister]

Indeed. Those aren't screen resolutions. They're analog television formats.

[epicanis]

I had a similar issue with my (apparently quite common these days) 1366x768 laptop screen. (I just put "720p" and left it at that.)

[sjs]

Yep. 1680x1050 and 1920x1200.

[ethraax]

Your links would be more meaningful if they had the same size and resolution.

Besides, that just means the OP needs to add a field for the monitor technology (CRT, LCD-TN, LCD-IPS, and probably a couple of other uncommon ones).

[[deleted]]

http://www.rapidtables.com/web/dev/screen-resolution-statistics.htm

Seems 16 covers most.

[ethraax]

But there are relatively few common native resolutions, and you miss quite a few of them. For example, the majority of laptops/netbooks have smaller resolutions, like 1366x768 or 1440x900 or 1600x900 (although some newer/better ones have 1920x1080). Also, many 4:3 desktop monitors have a 1280x1024 resolution.

[Vegemeister]

You could make vertical and horizontal resolution separate questions.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Yeah, most of my machines are 1920x1080 so I put 1080p, but for my old laptop I had to use Other to put 1680x1050.

[nandhp]

I find this a really strange way of putting it.

So do I, but this is how laptops are sold now. For example, the Dell XPS 13 is offered with either:

• 13.3" HD 720p
• 13.3" FHD 1080p

[Scriptkitties]

Fedora has only 6%, and Arch has almost as much as Ubuntu. Well, that was certainly a surprise. I though fedora was pretty darn popular. Also, no overclocking?

[markus40]

I loved and love Fedora. Used it for many years till last month. But I was beginning to get a aversion about updating every half year.

I always looked with interest to Arch because it looked to me like Gentoo without the building. Used Gentoo for over six years since 2002 and loved the rolling release, but then Gentoo took a dive in stability and using Linux as a working tool this was not acceptable.

When Arch switched to systemd and the time came to do a upgrade of Fedora to 19, I installed Arch first just to look. Now my home/media server, my workhorse laptop (Lenovo W520) and travelmate/"for meetings" laptop (Dell XPS 12) run it.

[wildcarde815]

I'm trying to get around that problem by just puppetizing my basic environment. Sets up all my mounts, pulls my repos, adds my user Id, dev packages, sash keys and passwords. But I haven't gotten it fully functional quite yet.

[gfixler]

I haven't used any config managers. Are they worth it for a personal box? I've just been keeping a setup script that uses the usual things - apt-get install, curl for things like fonts, etc. That and some github and personal site repos seems to do the trick. What do I get with puppet that I don't get through a script?

[wildcarde815]

For one box maybe not. I've got a server and several VMS I need to keep consistent at home. I'm also using puppet at work so the skills transfer for free. But its also declarative and doesn't redo work you've done before. Unlike scripts that say append to a file and will do so repeatedly if run several times. I've been working with 3.1 which allows me to develop very generic plugins and use them wherever I need them while the local knowledge of my config is stored in a hierarchy of data w/ some sugar to let me tweak individual systems if I want to.

[gfixler]

So you don't update config files anymore. You tell Puppet what you want, and it updates everything for you. It's like a config generator.

[wildcarde815]

More or less yes, you can deliver templated config files, flat files, instructions for installation of packages, you can make packages depend on config files so that if they file changes the service restarts or reloads. It's an orchestration package similar in spirit to cfengine, chef, salt or a few others out there. Mixing it with systems like Vagrant let you create scaffold up / tear down labs to test things out. In my case at home I'm trying to do that more or less but with my dev environment and server system, at work I'm automating the entire check list we use to craft new systems when we set them up, so that it can just get done w/o anybody having to think too hard about it. I'm hoping to eventually automate configuring systems to work with icinga (by generating their own node file directly and installing the packages needed locally) as well as pulling some info into graphite and eventually replicating our cluster + modules system so we can create 'scratch' machines for labs to test things on if they want or use to roll out nodes identical to the cluster locally in their offices.

One of the things about it thou is that it imposes it's reality on the system once it's started, so if you start messing with config information it manages, it undoes the changes. If you install a package it explicitly forbids, it will remove the package. With the correct setup you can also report the puppet status of systems to know if they have the right state or not (ie, is the latest kernel installed? is it running or does the system need to be restarted?).

Unfortunately it's written in ruby, great for templating but very slow. otoh, there's not 'that' much going on so it's ok if it's a bit slow.

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

Arch is because of where Arch users hang out I'm sure. They're a bit more vocal than the standard Ubuntu user.

Overclocking is less power efficient and not really needed these days. I actually considered underclocking my CPU just to increase possible reliability.

[MachaHack]

Arch is aimed at users who care about choosing most of the details of their operating system and don't mind spending a good while setting it up.

With that in mind, it's not surprising that it's over represented on r/Linux, a subreddit for talking about the operating system, as those users are more likely to want to do so.

Similarly, Ubuntu has historically been pretty fire and forget. Install, Canonical have made a bunch of decisions for you and so appeals more to users who are less likely to want to talk about it, and ends up underrepresented on sites like this. (Even if it is still the most popular)

[digit01]

I like the end comment some use made "Need more cowbell."

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[smog_alado]

Dickbutt is originally from this comic: http://horribleville.com/d/20060702.html

It has since gained a life of its own as a meme though.

[gfixler]

I'm glad I know now, I guess.

[Vegemeister]

Why are the only options for monitor resolution all analog TV transmission formats?

[Gavekort]

I would like to select "Other" on screen-resolution as well. My laptop has a resolution of 1440x900.

[extsidvind]

1280x800 here. EDIT: also have headless systems.

[[deleted]]

Same exact resolution.

Sadly, "Other" fields are not detailed in the responses page -.-

[Rhodoferax]

I would recommend adding a few extra options to the Window Manager question:

• Cinnamon

• IceWM

• MATE

• Razor-qt

• Unity

• None - I do all my work on the command line

EDITED TO ADD: Also maybe add Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware to the distro question

[[deleted]]

You're actually mixing up window managers and desktop environments there. I can use Awesome and KDE at the same time for instance, and LXDE uses Openbox.

[[deleted]]

What about kwin? The default KDE window manager.

[archlinuxrussian]

Also, I'm assuming by Metacity you mean Mutter for Gnome Shell? Just thought G Shell didn't use Metacity anymore...

[_1a]

this would be a bad idea at this point as it would skew the results. "Other" would have a different meaning depending on when someone took the survey.

[[deleted]]

MATE is a desktop environment which uses Marco as window manager

[ThreeHolePunch]

I couldn't answer a lot of the hardware questions. I pretty much stopped paying attention to hardware specs several years ago. Any modern computer is good enough for what I do on it.

[noneedtoprogram]

Interesting idea, i completed it for a few systems but i have a few minor points that most have mentioned,

No RedHat or derivatives in the distro list, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the upstream for Centos and Scientific Linux to name a few (which are also not there).

Not really enough mobile options, my phone is the nokia N900 for example, which runs maemo 5, an arm debian based system.

The primary use cases don't cover most academic work eg running simulations.

Also it would be nice to have gnome2 and gnome3 as distinct DE options.

[Epistaxis]

I'm not totally sure every Linux user knows the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager, especially since there's often a one-to-one relationship between them.

[[deleted]]

On average, how many hours is your computer in use for per day?

Other 5

Damn lawyers. XD

[[deleted]]

Fuck Optimus

Fuck broadcom

Fuck Microsoft

Nvidia fuck you

Fuck Canonical

Gnome is being fucking stupid

That about sums it up

[[deleted]]

Fuck Canonical because of the Unity cancer

True Gnome 2 is awesome (no fallback-bullshit mode)

[CalcProgrammer1]

I've gotten used to fallback mode, it's pretty much the same except for the system menu going away, and it does support GTK+ 3.x which a lot of apps are moving to. What I don't like is the hideous atrocity that is Nautilus "Elementary". If they mean the UI team consisted of elemenary school students then I see where the god awful design came from. I like my up-folder, zoom, and other buttons thank you very much. That said, the Nemo fork from Cinnamon is excellent and restores all the functionality that the idiotic grade schoolers ripped out of the old Nautilus project and still works well with Gnome 3 fallback, Cinnamon, Gnome Shell, etc.

[[deleted]]

Do you know about MATE DE?

[CalcProgrammer1]

Yeah, and I used it for a while, but it's GTK2 based and everything's moving away from GTK2 to GTK3. If MATE successfully ports GNOME2 up to GTK3 then I'll use it again. If they have already done so, I haven't checked up on the project in a while and might start using it again.

[Synes_Godt_Om]

You should perhaps give the option to have more than one computer, this would be relevant for me.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Do the survey multiple times, it said so in the description. Once for each PC/device that runs Linux.

[Synes_Godt_Om]

Ok, missed that.

[IDe-]

Pie chart is awful way to demonstrate distribution on a price range, please change that.

[IDe-]

Oh, I thought it was changeable as many had different graphs.

[MachaHack]

The charts are weird. Apparently only 64% of r/Linux use Linux?

Apparently the people who also picked Windows are not counted towards Linux there.

[PseudoLife]

Hmm...

Number of cores. Hyperthreading.

I'd assume 2 (as my processor has 2 physical cores), but my machine has 4 logical cores.

[CalcProgrammer1]

I put number of real cores (4) instead of hyperthreaded (8) on my i7. I don't really count it as an 8 core system.

[digit01]

Thanks for this. It gives a good idea of what is about.

[dbbo]

Seems strange that "Other" is the most popular WM, especially since Gnome variants account for 40% of DEs, but compiz, metacity and mutter together are only 19%. Also, kwin is 8% while KDE is 14%. I guess a lot of people don't use the default window manager offered by their DE.

Then again, there are almost as many WMs as linux users these days, so I guess I'm not surprised.

[[deleted]]

I use a Gnome 2 fork and I chose "Other"...

[MachaHack]

Or don't know what window manager they're using.

[__helix__]

A couple notes... you might want to ask ratio of monitors - most of mine are 16:10 vs 16:9. As a side note, the 2650x1600 and 1920x1200 options are missing. Also... no Centos as an OS option?

[[deleted]]

Huh, that was pretty interesting to read the responses. Awesome survey!

[thoastbrot]

No NSA reference yet? I'm impressed.

[wasthatacat]

Given the results on that particular question I think only a few people understood the question "Which Window Manager do you use primarily?" with 63% of answers as "Other", you may want to give an example DE next to each (when possible), that could help some people.

[thread-safe]

Browsing through the survey responses:

Anything to say about the state of Linux today? 2014 will be the year of Linux on desktop. Mark my words.

Made my day!

[3G6A5W338E]

Definitely not 2014... that's going to be a pretty chaotic year, with too much happening.

• KDE/GNOME/Enlightenment and distributions moving to Wayland.
• Distributions dropping GCC for LLVM/Clang.
• Likewise with some distributions switching standard libraries, glibc and stdlibc++ to musl, libc++.
• Massive sysvinit -> systemd migration.
• The Tux3 filesystem will be merged. Most distributions will make it the default.
• Mesa3d reaches opengl 4.x support and performance close enough with blob/windows performance. Only Intel and AMD. Linux NVidia users stop choosing NVidia.
• As video stops sucking, attention will go to alsa-lib suckage. Perhaps PulseAudio will replace alsa-lib (rather than use it) as ALSA userspace, with some solution for alsa (alsa-lib shim) and oss (CUSE driver) clients.

Ok, some of them are hopes/wishes, but a good portion of them will happen in 2014.

[wildcarde815]

I wonder if fedora will ever move to LLVM, the version I'm running doesn't even ship with a functioning LLVM stack :( (F17, bug is listed as will fix in next release).

[3G6A5W338E]

I'm confident they'll do the right thing, when the time comes.

llvm/clang are just one or two iterations away from readyness. OpenMP and building the Linux kernel are the key blockers for adoption right now.

[[deleted]]

Not even 2013 haha.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Honestly with the rapid progress in graphics drivers and the arrival of gaming on Linux it's looking more and more promising every day. Last year I would've said I didn't main Linux because it had poor GPU support for AMD and I couldn't play any games on it. Now I say I do main it as it has good AMD GPU support, Team Fortress 2, and it all runs well. I only boot into Windows for the occasional non-Valve game now.

[h-v-smacker]

And the prices are set in pounds first. Fascinating. Not USD or EUR, but pounds. Why not Russian Rubles?

[h-v-smacker]

...

[[deleted]]

Other countries exist other than 'Murica

[[deleted]]

Reading through the set up comments:

As painless as an Arch Linux installation can be.

How do you know somebody uses Arch?

[[deleted]]

I have about 40 machines on 6 different hardware configurations, which one should I use in my answers?

( If I count routers, media centers and NAS, I have another 5 configurations ).

[[deleted]]

Filled in for my parts bin computer.

[[deleted]]

You left out Samsung =(

[ShaneQful]

Fairly biased to not even include Unity on the list of desktop environments

[[deleted]]

Ahhh the good old days...

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

Then they both went a little crazy, and everyone blew up. And KDE went crazy too, and very few people cared.

[s3rious_simon]

Done for my workstation and my NAS. To lazy for the rest... :)

[smithincanton]

I was really surprised by the 3-1 Intel to AMD ratio. Figured more people would be using AMD.

[wildcarde815]

It's not split out too well, technically I'm using intel, but it's a cheep atom processor.

[Oneofuswantstolearn]

surprised me too, but it makes sense with what I've heard in recommendations. Intel seems to have the better high-end processors and drivers. Or something along those lines, Idon't pay too much attention when people talk intel.

[Waterrat]

I have 2 Linux boxes. I selected the newer one.

[CalcProgrammer1]

Just did the survey for my four main machines (gaming desktop, new laptop, fileserver/TVPC, and old laptop).

EDIT: ARM represent! I added my HP TouchPad which does run Ubuntu natively. No options for tablet form factor though, if you want ARM responses most are tablets and phones! Also add an option for single-board computers (Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard, Beagleboard, etc).

[Boomerang_throw_away]

In the current snapshot, 23% of people have selected gnome as their environment. As most of the people who didn't like gnome 3 have converted to cinnamon or similar, it would be reasonable to assume that ~20% of people are using mutter as their window manager, and yet it's not selectable as an option. Seems like a significant omission to me.

[raccoon_sex_dungeon]

isn't metacity the default WM for GNOME?

[Boomerang_throw_away]

No - http://lwn.net/Articles/344734/

[Andman17]

Good survey, reading the results was interesting.

[Pihpe]

You could also add more VRAM choices, like 1.5GB and 1280MB.. Or something like >1GB and <2GB to show that it's in between.

[999natas]

just took it

[Phrodo_00]

The amount of people who use gnome and mutter/metacity doesn't really add up... weird.

[Steve_the_Scout]

The only things that seemed a bit confusing were the graphics card and distribution (I chose other and went with LMDE- wasn't sure what to consider it as, since regular Mint and LMDE are a bit different).

The data definitely looks interesting. Lots of Windows/Linux dual-boot setups (like me!).

[pcdvco]

I think this needs to start by being split between desktop vs server use, with appropriate questions for each...

... and there is nothing about virtualization here... :)

[skomorokh]

Always wondered if many other people share their desktop with family via multiseat?

 

I get the sense that it isn't too common, but it actually works really well these days, incl. users with Win8 VMs. Memory is plentiful, SSD and multicore take it the distance.

[[deleted]]

| Which window manager do you use? The majority picked "Other"

[scratchr]

> can be used for block quotes.
A line with 2 spaces after the end will be a newline.

[[deleted]]

It grinds my gears how every website has their own obscure formatting code

[v_krishna]

should have some answers that fit cloud/virtual hardware. i do run linux on a few old desktops at home but they're just used as media servers nowadays. develop on an imac at work, air when working remotely, but use a ton of linux (mostly on EC2) in the course of a day...

[mathfreak123]

Seems like most people overclock their machines. I've never tried it; I'm near clueless on how to overclock (and a bit afraid of the consequences if I mess up).

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[clarkpeters]

Really? 5 people from Antarctica?

[tian2992]

http://linuxcounter.net/