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.
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.
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
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
Some questions I wish I could say because it’s open source or I believe in open source projects
Free software is an option but for sure the open sourceness makes sense even if it wasnt free
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”.
Thanks, but poorly changing this now would cause breakage.
Yes forgot source install completely, thats an issue.
Done. 🥰
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
Fixed some up, if you can be more specific about 2. That would help
Sorry I can’t find it now. Probably I misunderstood something idk
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?
More non-binary than female lmao
Yes this is crazy
I dunno, I don’t wanna take part in any survey, it feels wrong to me. But filled it halfway, just to see my own thoughts on linux. BTW you shouldve added " for fun" as a option to the question “why’d you use linux”, thats the first thing that came to my mind
I think that is an option.
And that survey is anonymous, I dont get any personal info like IP address etc.
Cryptpad still doesn’t support rclone file transfer or at least WebDAV? Was waiting for this for ages…
Encrypted forms are not usable. Uncaught Error: TIMEOUT. I enabled WASM.
I answered
I’ve done my part!
