When the web-site was redone with Mambo (later renamed Joomla!), one of the new features was polls.
Here are the results of a few polls that were done in the past.
| Voters | Percent | Description |
| 1298 | 27.8% | NTFS if I could. |
| 918 | 19.7% | Why use Windows? |
| 633 | 13.6% | NTFS with ntfsmount. |
| 626 | 13.4% | A samba share on some server. |
| 595 | 12.7% | FAT32 forever. |
| 358 | 7.7% | ext2 driver for Windows. |
| 241 | 5.2% | Why use Linux? |
Number of Voters : 4669
First Vote : Sunday, 14 May 2006 07:57
Last Vote : Sunday, 16 July 2006 13:46
Interpretation:
Most of the users (1961 - 41.4%) use NTFS for file sharing (remember the bias).
1579 (33.8%) users use workarounds. (Samba/fat32/ext2)
1159 (24.9%) clearly entered the wrong site. (Why use Windows/Linux?)
0 (-0.1%) users got lost due to rounding errors. 
I did not look at the poll until now, so I don't know how the slashdotting that happened due to ntfs-3g announcement effected the results.
Overall, NTFS with full R/W rocks!
| Voters | Percent | Description |
| 998 | 47.5% | Partition Magic or another proprietary. |
| 426 | 20.3% | QTparted, parted or similars. |
| 304 | 14.5% | backup, delete, create, restore. |
| 206 | 9.8% | Only ntfsresize. |
| 168 | 8% | Using my distribution install program. |
Number of Voters : 2102
First Vote : Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:50
Last Vote : Sunday, 14 May 2006 00:45
Interpretation:
Please note that the poll was published on www.linux-ntfs.org, and thus there is a large bias toward ntfsresize (not enough it seems).
As far as I can remember, the proprietary option was the second choice at the beginning of the survey. I don't know where this twist came from.
I do admit that Partition Magic is much more powerful than QTparted
(which IMO is the best free tool in this domain), at least when it comes to _partitioning_.
I can not tell anything about file system support.
One major point is clear here: GUI wins.
The second one is: advertisement!
| Voters | Percent | Description |
| 452 | 47.9% | I prefer a stable driver over features. |
| 217 | 23% | I need write support without data loss but may hang the machine. |
| 195 | 20.7% | I need write support that works in most cases. |
| 67 | 7.1% | Write support now, fixing later. |
| 12 | 1.3% | Who needs write support? |
Number of Voters : 943
First Vote : Sunday, 14 August 2005 23:33
Last Vote : Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:13
Interpretation:
Half the voters (47.9%) agree with Anton's opinion (that is manifested in the kernel driver)
Next goes 23%-43.7% of the voters with Yura's opinion (that is manifested in ntfsmount)
Only 7.1%-27.8% of the voters agree with Lewis' opinion (manifested in driver 1.X)
1.3% believe we're done.
All in all, the current direction looks promising.
(Although the current decline in cvs activity is troublesome, but I admit I'm part of it too)
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