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.
26 points

There’s a few “Your question here” questions…

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19 points

I suspect those may depend on choosing a particular response to some of the previous questions

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10 points

No thats lag as the form doesnt handle over 50 questions that well.

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11 points

Yup, oops. Those were caused by lag as the form gets horribly slow at that size, server-side somehow.

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22 points

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.

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9 points

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.

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17 points

wow I did not expect Linux to be this male dominated

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14 points

Is it really that surprising? Specially the type of person that would be on Lemmy and use Linux.

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well yes, it means we still have a very long way to go as a society edit: at least as community

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6 points

No me neither, crazy huh.

At least this community. Linux ≠ Linux community on the Fediverse.

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3 points

I’m surprised there was any female participation at all.

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16 points

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!

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10 points

Its encrypted on the server and decrypted in your browser. Not useful for this survey though

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15 points

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

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4 points

You can see the live results!

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2 points

Thanks for telling me, more people answered than I expected

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