[POLL] What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

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What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

Linux - Debian/Ubuntu/SteamOS & derivatives
92
25%
Linux - RHEL/Fedora/openSUSE
13
4%
Linux - Other (Please specify in a comment in this thread)
26
7%
Unix
2
1%
Windows 7
45
12%
Windows 8 / 8.1
7
2%
Windows 10
102
28%
macOS 10.10
3
1%
macOS 10.11
7
2%
macOS 10.12
11
3%
macOS 10.13
15
4%
Android OS
26
7%
iOS
12
3%
None of the Above (Please specify in a comment in this thread)
7
2%
 
Total votes: 368

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Re: [POLL] What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

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Santiago_nicola wrote: April 8th, 2019, 12:29 pm No support for Unix?
do you have it working on an actual Unix(TM) operating system?

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Steam ought to be its own category, not a sub of Linux.
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SteamOS (not Steam, the software), is based on Debian, which is Linux.
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Ah i see, i just installed Steam on my Linux box and am getting used to it. Wouldnt it be useful to get some idea how many are using the Steam layer?
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Steam itself keeps track of that sort of information, so there isn't really a need to have our own poll for it.
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> Steam itself keeps track of that sort of information, so there isn't really a need to have our own poll for it.

well not everyone uses steam, in particular there are plattforms like mobile, that steam does not support, but even if not it's still interesting to see whether there is a differnt between steam users and forum users
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It'd still be more accurate to compare the Steam download count vs the sum of the non-Steam download methods, I'd guess.
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> It'd still be more accurate to compare the Steam download count vs the sum of the non-Steam download methods, I'd guess.

That would not work either so I agree with gfgtdf.

Of course a poll is also biased, since many people won't participate. But I have never used steam and never will, so I would
never be included in these trackings, so the steam variant is ALSO biased.

IMO there is nothing wrong with gaining as much information as possible including such voluntary polls.

If we don't analyze the above dataset in detail, windows seems to be the most common user base, followed by linux, followed by mac.

It would be interesting to compare this with the data from steam and see whether there is a big difference.

Note that I am not entirely sure how you can determine the OS through non-steam downloads. How do you track of
the OS? Is wget and curl required to pass that information? I in general never send any information outside to any
external party due to privacy concerns (I don't use chromium or firefox either for browsing).
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Re: [POLL] What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

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the new counter in the next version should reduce some of the uncertainty
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How? It will only capture data on those who play MP and completely miss those of us who SP only.
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Re: [POLL] What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

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I saw yesterday an interesting statistic.

https://knal.ga has a list of trending campaigns.
What I see from it: 1.12 is not dead, with around 1/3 or 1/4 of the download numbers.
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Shiki wrote: December 5th, 2019, 5:30 pm I saw yesterday an interesting statistic.

https://knal.ga has a list of trending campaigns.
What I see from it: 1.12 is not dead, with around 1/3 or 1/4 of the download numbers.
Note that the statistics might not be showing exactly that since it only shows the trend (the difference between the last week and the previous week), not the raw download numbers. Though, I guess I could add a column that shows the actual number of downloads.
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And add a date/time stamp, too?
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Tad_Carlucci wrote: December 5th, 2019, 11:20 pm And add a date/time stamp, too?
A date/time stamp where?
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I didn't see one on the trends page. Maybe I missed it.

Total downloads are interesting but don't really mean much for comparisons since the start date varies wildely.

I'd probably store the numbers and offer a drill-down feature, or a checklist selecting which addons to show, and graph the results over time. Not that I'd use it much for anything other than grinz.
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Re: [POLL] What Operating Systems do you use Wesnoth on?

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Tad_Carlucci wrote: December 5th, 2019, 11:56 pm I didn't see one on the trends page. Maybe I missed it.

Total downloads are interesting but don't really mean much for comparisons since the start date varies wildely.
I'll probably show the most downloaded addons during the last week.
Tad_Carlucci wrote: December 5th, 2019, 11:56 pm I'd probably store the numbers and offer a drill-down feature, or a checklist selecting which addons to show, and graph the results over time. Not that I'd use it much for anything other than grinz.
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