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Linux Users Donate Twice As Much As Windows Users, On Average
sammyF70 writes "The Wolfire/Humble Indie Bundle real time statistics have been updated to show the average amount donated per platform. It looks like Linux users donate twice as much, on average, as Windows users. You can see some graphs on the Wolfire blog."
If this is counting Window's Users "donations" to Microsoft, McAfee ....
Windows users already pay through the nose, so they don't have anything leftover to donate.
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Linux has fewer games than Windows, so games would be more highly valued by Linux users than Windows users.
Those who use windows have less money due to having to pay for geeksquad for cleaning the scumware and viruses off their computers or buying new ones. Which reminds me, my computer is passing that 20 minute boot up time, probably need to buy a new one...
(...Kidding guys, don't flood me with suggestions)
I bought world of Goo through Steam for my windows machine and paid more than the average Linux user contributes more for the whole indie bundle. When folks 'contribute' through different sources, these number don't mean much.
Perhaps because when you feel like you've already got a bargain (infinite value for money on average), you're happy to chuck a few quid in. And can I just say, what a nice, simple, well laid out and advert-realistic that website from TFA is? When we all so often get complete wastes of cycles and eyeballs, that's a really nice website, and we should say so as loudly as we complain about bad ones.
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Why would your typical windows user have heard of these people? Why would they donate?
In short, why do I care?
... from not buying Windows, antivirus software, an office suite, ...
I wondered, will people care enough to start making fake donations, i.e. pay 1c, then download the windows version, to make the other camp look bad?
You've got to take these things with a grain of salt anyway. I know I only paid $10 for the bundle because I wasn't sure it was going to work at all on my oldish hardware. I'm likely to "buy" it again for a higher price as a thumbs-up once I give all games a good try and am convinced I like them.
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Yeah, it's funny that they mentioned Mac/Windows at all. I mean, honestly, who uses those?
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3 days in a row, three slashvertisements for this Humble/Indie Bundle... who's getting their percentage?
Windows user twice as wealthy as Linux users, on average.
Have fun trying to virtualize any games from the last decade.
Does that mean you are 10 years old yourself?
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- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Unfortunately, two times zero is still zero... /jk, keep donating folks.
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It's not an ad. It's a discussion of the indie game house's revenues. Sure it brings people to Wolfire's site, but if the company is providing useful contributions to the game business discussion, they deserve the attention.
NOTE: A slashvertizement would be something like "Wolfire releases new game!"
Macs are generally owned by people better off financially (PCs also have the better off folks in their market of course, but probably a much greater percentage of poorer folks than Macs), so that explains their position. Perhaps Windows and Linux both have a contingent of geeks who care, but Windows has far, far more non-geeks/non-gamers than Linux, and that's where the difference there comes in? (Or maybe it's from saving the hundreds of dollars on OS and other proprietary software, but a lot of that gets pirated anyway, so that still may only apply to the less geeky half of the populace.)
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edit: I even had to click "preview" twice to be able to submit... Slashdot really is run by incompetent morons.
I use Windows Vista and earlier today I got a virus while looking for porn torrents. The virus disabled taskmanager and the ability to run any other executables and flooded the screen with popups advertising fake virus software. It was easy enough to run HijackThis (after renaming it to iexplore.exe to fool the virus) to identify and delete the viral executable; I had the problem fixed in under 30 minutes.
Windows isn't that bad when you actually know what you're doing. Problem is, most people don't. Do you think those people would do any better on Linux? I doubt it.
Oh, I forgot just like the PS3 they have nogaems.
Also Mac users spent all their paycheck on some smug, effete computer with an exorbitant logo tax.
...just 2$. After having a look at the games, none of them really interested me. Maybe I'll never get around to play any of these games. But I really like to support this kind of stuff, even if it is with just 2 lousy dollars. Hope we are going to see more of this in the future.
Buying Windows? The trialware preinstalled on a typical home PC subsidizes that. (Otherwise, how would an Acer Aspire Revo with Windows cost as much as a retail box of Windows?) Buying Antivirus? You can use Avast on a home PC for $0. Office suite? Most people using one on a home PC* don't need Microsoft Access, so OOo will suffice.
*If you work from home, Microsoft Office is a business expense that you can deduct if your boss doesn't already reimburse it.
After the purchase, I was asked which platforms I use. I ticked the Windows and Linux checkboxes.
How does this get translated to the graphs? Do they count my donation twice, one for Windows and other for Linux?
I'm from the Windows piece of the pie and I paid $10 which beats the Windows and Mac averages (if only by a little on Mac) ... the thing for me is though that I fit in a category of people that is uncountable by their statistics. That category being, well, someone who doesn't really want the games and never would have bought them for even $5 in a store as a bundle. Why did I do it you ask? Simply because I support developers such as these, people who realize that DRM is bad and that honest customers will pay for game should the real product be superior to the pirated product, as it should be. As someone who hates to see the Ubisofts and other evil overlords of game publication, I donated the $10 and specifically chose the "Developers Only" option (donating to charity is something that can easily be done outside of this offer) because I feel they DESERVE it.
As for the Linux crowd, I presume the higher donation totals is due to many factors like less games than Windows, pirating itself being a rather Windows centric crowd, and I'd even toss in the purely speculative assumption that the average intelligence and income of a Linux user is higher (lets face it other developers and geeks/nerds primarily).
Ubuntu has about twice the share of all other linux based desktops, combined, it would be nice to give it its own statistical category like mac. You don't just throw mac and 'linux' together as 'unix'. I'm tired of developers thinking they have to target multiple linux desktops with their coding and packaging. If you put out one single file, it should be a .deb.
We all know games will run on Linux acceptably well with either WINE, Transgaming WineX/Cedega, or Codeweaver's Wine. Don't point that out, because they have a quota to say enough false about Linux for one day. Talk about something else. Talk about him eating my cock, feeding my pecker directly into his STDin and filling his gullet with my black worm jizz. Go on, drink it! Drink it down, send in MC Hammer on your way out.
Goofy survey to start with. And easily skewed.
Including my wife and I alone in the survey (Windows and iMac users at home - FreeBSD for work) would have probably tilted the scale the other direction.
Pointless survey and article unless you are a fan boy or flamer.
If correct, these stats could be interesting, and worth investigating more. They could also be a bundle of meaningless misleading numbers, as many are. However, I would say the developers themselves will, in their sales history numbers, have much more data, which will show more relevant results.
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Look at the top ten donations list in the little stats box. According to that, somebody paid $1000 and two more people paid $500. If all three of those were Linux users, I can see why their average would be higher. Especially since the rest of the donations are under $300, and probably very few are even over $100.
Donate to what? What on earth are you people talking about? I'm so confused. Why would any clear thinking individual ever donate money to Microsoft? I even went and read TFA, and I STILL have no idea what we're donating to... Now maybe I've been living under a tech rock or something, but can we get some context please?
why is it rude?
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
In a sense it's no so much regular donating (as in simply giving money for a good cause) as appreciating something which is given to you for free and paying an amount you see fit.
For example I like to download free audio book episodes through www.podiobooks.com. They have a feature where you can donate money in relation to a specific show.
The majority of that money goes to the author/creator of said show and the rest to the site which provides the service. That way you can give money to the people who decided to share what they created for free and at the same time support the upkeep of the free service which made it posssible for the creators to share it with you.
This was also seen (perhaps inspired by?) 2D Boy and World of Goo. The wrapup page is http://2dboy.com/page/4/
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Wolfire makes it to Slashdot AGAIN with a poorly disguised PR campaign...
Windows users are forced to buy and re-buy software. No wonder they don't have anything left! Thankfully us Linux users can keep our wallets tucked away, far from Steve Ballmer.