Re: [Tails-ux] Draft survey on VeraCrypt usage

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Author: segfault
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To: sajolida, Tails user experience & user interface design
Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] Draft survey on VeraCrypt usage
sajolida:
> segfault:
>> Looks great!
> Other OSes like what? BSD and such? Chrome OS?


Yeah, I was mostly thinking about *BSD.

> I bet these would be as few as "Other Linux" so I'm replacing "Other
> Linux" with an open "Other" field. See attachment.
>
> I will still keep "Debian & Ubuntu" separate because:
>
> - I suspect it would still be the third most popular family of OSes.
> - We tend to treat Debian & Ubuntu a bit differently (cf. Installation)
> so I'm curious about having general stats on this outside of the scope
> of the VeraCrypt survey :)


I see. Regarding general stats, one thing I would find very interesting
is how many of our users already know GNOME from OSes other than Tails.
Maybe we could add a question for that. But I'm ok to leave this out if
you think it would unnecessarily bloat the survey. Actually, there are
already even more questions popping in my mind. I think we should do
another survey to get more data on our users and how they like the Tails
UX :)

>> I wonder why I don't get asked if I encrypt my entire system if I choose
>> any other OS than Windows. Does TC/VC support this only on Windows?
>
> That's what I understood, both reading
> https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/System%20Encryption.html and searching a bit
> online.
>
> But maybe I missed something...


Nope, seems like you're correct, I just installed VeraCrypt on a Debian
and it doesn't show me the system partition options.

>> I don't think the questions will tell us *why* and *how* people are
>> using keyfiles, which you added as research questions. But I don't think
>> this matters much, so I don't care if you add something for this.
>
> Yeah! That's what I thought as well.
>
> Another option would be to add an option email field so we can contact
> back some people if we want more info. But that's probably overkill.


I agree.

>> I don't see how the survey will allow us to answer the research
>> questions "Do people share files between Tails and their regular
>> operating system? Why? How?"
>
> I drop this question from the research plan actually. I thought that
> what's most interesting is how they exchange file with other people, and
> I also thought that they could anyway use the same strategy to exchange
> file with their regular operating system.
>
> I was also afraid of having two open-ended questions that look quite
> similar and abstract and bother people too much (whenever I answer
> surveys, I always find the open ended questions the most annoying!).


Right, open questions are absolutely the most annoying.

>> and "Can we rely on file containers having
>> a .tc or .hc extension?". Maybe I missed something?
>
> I have a question "Does the name of your file containers include the .TC
> or .HC extension?" but it only appears if you say that you use file
> containers in the question "What kind of VeraCrypt (or TrueCrypt)
> volumes are you using?". Maybe you missed that.


I did miss that :)