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.
There’s a few “Your question here” questions…
I suspect those may depend on choosing a particular response to some of the previous questions
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.
wow I did not expect Linux to be this male dominated
Is it really that surprising? Specially the type of person that would be on Lemmy and use Linux.
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!
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.
