Subject: Re: [bug#75741] [PATCH 1/1] website: add the second post covering the Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024.

From: Steve George <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:06:28 +0000

Hi Simon,

Thanks for taking a look at it.

On 22/01/2025 22:39, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Maybe, it could clarify by adding a sentence as:
> 
>          As a reminder there were 943 full responses to the survey, of this 53%
>          were from users and 32% were from contributors.  Take the results with
>          some grain of salt–such survey has its own limitation and bias!
>          Nonetheless, it draws an helpful and insightful picture of Guix.
>          Thanks to all responders!
> 
(...)

I haven't added this, as I think with 900+ participants we can draw 
strong conclusions from it.

I'm not comfortable undermining the insights we get by caveating. It's 
obobvious and common sense that this isn't a science survey and won't be 
published in a journal :-))))

>> +        (p
>> +          (ul
>> +            (li "From this we can conclusively say that the majority of Guix users do use proprietary drivers.")))
> 
> I would add a sentence here.  Something like: “Although hardware that
> respects Freedom is available, hardware requiring proprietary drivers is
> sadly the norm.”
> 
> Somehow, a sentence clarifying that an “half-choice“ for most of us. :-)

Added this, also Ludo pointed out that we do include some drivers, so 
this is worth noting.

> https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
> 
>> +          (table
>> +            (caption (b "Table 15: Application sources"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (th "Source") (th "Count") (th "Percentage"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "I only use applications from Guix") (td "234") (td "25%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Packages from my host Linux distro") (td "352") (td "37%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Nix service on Guix System") (td "124") (td "13%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Nonguix channel (proprietary apps and games)") (td "607") (td "64%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Guix Science channel") (td "127") (td "14%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "My own Guix channel") (td "442") (td "47%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Guix channels provided by other people") (td "303") (td "32%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Flatpak") (td "334") (td "35%"))
>> +            (tr
>> +              (td "Other") (td "111") (td "12%"))))
> 
> I know it’s boring and that’s only a suggestion for my own comfort. ;-)
> Would it be possible to sort?  On the other hand, it implies to redraw
> the histogram; I do not know if my own comfort is worth the extra
> effort. :-)

I admit it I'm exhausted, I should do this, but haven't as too tired!

> LGTM!

Thank-you!