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Written by futurile on 2025-01-24 at 13:41

The #guix survey also showed that our users are knowledgeable #Linux people. Almost 50% are experts/advanced and 47% are intermediate!

A lot of the attraction is the #nix value of declarative configuration and reproducibility. Users also identified that Scheme, Guile and Lisp are cool! Perhaps the overlap of two different communities! That was my path from #clojure and #ubuntu /#debian

See Q1 in the post:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

[#]scheme #emacs #guile #lisp #declarative #reproducible

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Written by Csepp 🌢 on 2025-01-25 at 13:14

@futurile Something that is sorely missing from the survey evaluation (so far, no idea what's coming in part 2) is a consideration of confounding factors, like who the survey would even reach and would be motivated enough to fill it. The growth stat for example only makes sense if we assume that those who left are willing to put in the effort into filling out the essay. My guess is that those who just bounced off after a quick test are not going to be represented.

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Written by futurile on 2025-01-25 at 17:47

@csepp I may not be fully understanding what you're saying ...

Yes, a limitation of ALL surveys is you only get information from people committed enough to fill it out.

Other avenues like analytics and user research aren't possible in FOSS.

That feels like common sense to me! I resisted caveating:

"this is imperfect information our knowledge is partial" - because it doesn't get you anywhere.

We had no data, now we have some - lets use it to improve Guix, no?

Am I missing your point?

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