It’s been a while since we conducted our last survey (March 2016 actually!) and we have still not published the full analysis – unfortunately this kind of things takes time, and while we have not given up on releasing a complete overview of the result. However, in that last survey we have specifically asked folks if they wanted to publicly share their answers at the very end of the survey (the first time we did ask that).

Net, about 70% of the respondents agreed to do it (many thanks to all of you who agreed to do that!), and you now have a pretty good sample (n-560) of answers collected in a single data set on Kaggle and github. It is anonymous and covers a bunch of topics, as per the previous surveys we conducted, such as…

Demographics

Geography

Family Situation

OS used for Work and at Home

Linux Usage experience

Linux Gaming Experience

Type of Gamer (Hardcore or not)

Playing Exclusively on Linux or not

Time spent Playing per week

Budget spent on Linux Games per month

Games played recently

Games Bought recently

Hardware GPU for Gaming

Hardware GPU Model

General Hardware at Home using Linux

Usage of Resellers (Steam, GOG, HumbleBundle)

Satisfaction of different Resellers

Awareness of Steam Machines

Awareness of Steam Controller, Steam Link

Intent of Purchase of Steam Machines

Intent of Building Steam Machine DIY

SteamOS and opinion towards it

General feeling towards future of Linux

Stance about DRM

Stance about WINE

WINE usage and satisfaction

and more, much more… !

So while this data is not super fresh anymore, it’s not super old either and some questions related to one’s stance on particular topics are probably relatively stable. You are welcome to have a look on Kaggle (and also on github if you don’t want to create any account), where we published it, to analyze the dataset in the meantime.

There are a bunch of ways you can look at it so we hope that you can have fun with it (just reading the free text comments is worth its own share of gold! Some are quite funny actually).

We released the data using the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. Please be mindful of respecting its restrictions if you decide to do something with it.

So, we are looking forward to seeing what you folks do with it! On a side note, we will be back soon with a revised survey (and a couple of surprises related to it), so this is certainly not the last dataset we plan to share (as long as respondents agree to make answers public).

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