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Why can not all those be true?
Some answers are phrased so that they all make sense, I am more interested in the most important reasons.
Just everyone selecting everything is not that useful.
Does CryptoPad not support a ranked-choice voting? You get better information than with approval voting.
Also, are you keeping the results from each iteration, or will there be a final version that us early repliers should return to?
I dont know I think so? There is a "numbered list" option
You can edit your votes as I made some fixes. I decided against a second version.
And yes I forgot the ranked voting, this would make a hell lot of sense.
I will do a second one
Assumed that much, maybe phrase as the 3 most relevant to one?
I put a note in the top text
Dope, great work. are you going to edit this post or make a new one for the tesults?
This will get a new post to be more visible
I can't complete the survey because of the questions.
Some questions are single choice but should allow for multiple, like 29.
Some questions are too broad, like question 17, "why?".
I believe 17 is why you use disk encryption, as that was the question above for me
Sorry, wrong formatting. Will edit that.
Didn't realize you could edit it, it'd be nice if there were options for using your computer for creative work like 3D modeling or digital art :)
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I feel that the questions around community and integration should not depend on the gender selection in question 2, imo.
The sad reality as that tech is still not terribly diverse. It is better than it was but still lacking.
I'm not disagreeing, but the poll prevents reporting a bad community experience of you select "male" as gender.
That is actually fairly flawed
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Duo to the way Crytopad works please remember to add a "Don't want to say" answer to questions with radio buttons, since you cannot deselect them meaning you can't back out of questions you don't want to answer. Hit me up if you wanna do that survey again. I'll gladly help you with structuring and formatting
Added them
Longer than expected, but it reminded me of some things I haven't thought of in a while.
62 questions. I guess I am lazy.
I kinda escalated but that form feature is supercool, those are not really 62, they expand depending on what you select.
For example if you use GNOME and used KDE before, it asks for reasons.
Thats probably a bug
What is your gender?
What is your / your families income?
Do you have a special brain?
Yeah this survey is super inappropriate and offensive. Please do not ask such personal questions.
I think these questions may be, depending on the context, but I'm willing to assume that these are not intended to be. If they come from a legitimate wish to better understand the community without prejudice, then these questions are acceptable to me. It's also a standalone poll, self reported and with no tie to any identity.
But maybe I'm unique in thinking that these questions may have circumstances in which they are acceptable?
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The way I thought of that, as someone with a special brain (autism) is that rather than just knowing things like experience and what they use/like/dislike/etcetera, it's also good to know a breakdown of what groups of people are using Linux/answered the survey. At least there was an "I'd rather not say" kind of option in case you don't wanna give up that information.
Every of these questions is optional and has a "not saying anything" answer.
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The last one is just stupid, to be honest. But the rest are relevant for statistics sake.
No I am honestly curious as I have the feeling there are tons of people with ADHD and Autism in the Linux community, myself included.
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Yeah this survey is super inappropriate and offensive. Please do not ask such personal questions.
Did you notice that more inappropriate questions appear and disappear based on your previous answers?
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when we can we expect to get results?
This is a first run, doing an overhaul currently (no idea if this breaks things).
Then will post to other lemmy forums and general matrix discussions.
Then in 2 weeks or so the results
Why does "Why did you switch from*" have different options for each distro? Thought it was funny only NixOS had "toxic people" option. Guessing due to recent drama.
I see someone trying out the options ;)
Yes for sure not the perfectly scientific method, but I used things that are known. Like Snaps and Ads for Ubuntu, too old packages for Debian, and "I dont know really why to use it" for OpenSUSE lol
And yes, NixOS to my knowledge has a huge governance issue.
I will do another survey about exact distros, and could have used specific ones here too but didnt want to for now.
Very biased survey in general. Should have more open-ended questions and less tailoring of questions based on previous answers.
I experimented with the platform.
The "anonymous" feature means I cannot do a lot of things one would normally do. For example I have no idea "users that use ubuntu and stayed with Ubuntu will likely dont care about xyz". Because there is no correlation.
Having questions depend on the previous answers makes it possible to filter out groups of people to get more interesting data.
And for sure the questions are biased, try to do an unbiased survey that is still interesting or funny. But I tried my best.
What is the difference between "Versioned" and "Stable"? And which one is NixOS?
I am not sure haha, I think versioned means there is a certain amount of stability but closer to upstream, while stable is like "I run Kernel 5.14 and do my patches myself".
It is the same but with a slight difference in how extreme it is.
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