Age Poll 2008

[void_false]

Dude google for the shut down command for your particular flavor of linux, use it, then go to the nearest night club, get rat arsed and look for a girl as drunk as you, then go home, sleep it all off, wake up in the morning and go back to Linux, you'll be a much happier end user trust me

Oh and 24 for another 14 days

There was dating poll on these forums and I remember that great majority of forumers were alone too

[techieMoe]

43 here.
I guess I will be voting in this age slot for awhile.

If there's a strong showing of people in the 41+ range I'll expand the offerings next year. Perhaps by 5 like I do for the under 30s?

40-45
46-50
51-55
55+

[hazel]

Interesting that there's so few teenagers. This used to be the main geek period - now they're spoonfed with Windows and don't want anything more intellectually demanding.

[coopstah13]

i don't even think it needs to be split in the 20's, i think it should just be under 20, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50+

[techieMoe]

Interesting that there's so few teenagers. This used to be the main geek period - now they're spoonfed with Windows and don't want anything more intellectually demanding.

If you look at the data for the last two years:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...ll-2007-a.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...ll-2006-a.html

It shows a definite trend. Two years ago there were significantly more under 20s, last year was more mid-twenties and this year that number is getting older. Perhaps we're just not attracting as many younger folks and the ones that are already here are just moving up the voting rungs.

Of course, this being only the 4th of January it's still too early to tell what this year's demographics will show.

[carlosponti]

turn 30 in february

[bigtomrodney]

i don't even think it needs to be split in the 20's, i think it should just be under 20, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50+

I know what you mean, though generally early 20's could mean still studying in college, whereas late 20's more often means working/professional (or at least I've always thought so). I guess that would be a key factor in usage.

[coopstah13]

I know what you mean, though generally early 20's could mean still studying in college, whereas late 20's more often means working/professional (or at least I've always thought so). I guess that would be a key factor in usage.

yeah i suppose thats probably typical but i couldn't imagine i'm the only person that falls into the 20-25 and professional/working category, i just thought this poll was for age, not trying to get another demographic out of it too like in school/not in school because you can't just assume that a person in a certain age group is in school in my opinion

[bigtomrodney]

Not at all, it's not really the science behind it I'm sure. I was just throwing out ideas, life stages more than specifically studying/working/whatever.

[MikeTbob]

On the other hand the girlfriend won't be too happy because I'm getting married shortly after I turn 28...

Uhhhh, Does your Girlfriend know this??