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Steams February stats are out, Linux rises again!

by liamdawe March 1 at 9:09 pm Steam

So as usual Steam has published their monthly user statistics and it's looking ever better for Linux!

Linux Stats
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.71% +0.28%
Ubuntu 12.10 0.38% +0.19%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit 0.31% +0.31%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 0.20% +0.20%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit 0.17% +0.17%
Linux 64 bit 0.14% +0.14%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.11% -0.22%
Total: 2.02%

Last Month Linux Stats
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.33% +0.07%
Ubuntu 12.10 0.19% +0.07%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 0.17% +0.04%
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.43% +0.14%
Total: 1.12%

So Linux's market share on Steam has risen 0.9% in the space of one month.

This is leaving out "Other 0.82% +0.06%" as I don't like to include it and assume it is Linux when it could be a mix of other things, but even that is higher as well.

Considering Mac has a total of 3.07% this is welcome news since going by these stats we really aren't far behind them at all.

They have added "Linux 64 bit" and Limit Mint 14 Nadia 64bit into this months official stats it seems, I hope "Linux 64 bit" counts all other distro's and if so I hope they do this for 32 bit as well soon so we can get an even more accurate public measure for Steam.

As always take anything other than the official stats with pinches of salt as sometimes my math and thought patterns can be wrong.

It would be nice if we could find out what % of the total user base filled out the survey to get more of a decent picture.

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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Comment by Xpander on March 1 at 9:54 pm Link To Me
	probably other distros that are detected by steam hw info are counted also. just their % doesnt reach to 0.10% so they are included in Other Quote me

Comment by tweakedenigma on March 1 at 9:58 pm Link To Me
	Quote from Xpander probably other distros that are detected by steam hw info are counted also. just their % doesnt reach to 0.10% so they are included in Other My Guess is we make up at least 80% of other. But no real way to know for sure. Quote me

Comment by ganoo on March 1 at 10:33 pm Link To Me
	Keep in mind that many people just used virtual machines to get tux in tf2 next month the numbers might be lower Quote me

Comment by Anon on March 1 at 10:50 pm Link To Me
	I'd expect it to fall slightly next month, but it'll probably still be above 1.5% I hope they put in a Linux tab at that point, so we can see more detailed info. Quote me

Comment by Kame on March 1 at 11:12 pm Link To Me
	Quote from ganoo Keep in mind that many people just used virtual machines to get tux in tf2 next month the numbers might be lower Quote from Anon I'd expect it to fall slightly next month, but it'll probably still be above 1.5% I hope they put in a Linux tab at that point, so we can see more detailed info. That's not how it works. You're only counted for this if you're asked to participate in the survey. So unless they ran a Linux VM to get a tux and then accepted and took the survey in said VM... it shouldn't drop at all. Quote me

Comment by Kame on March 1 at 11:12 pm Link To Me

Quote from ganoo
Keep in mind that many people just used virtual machines to get tux in tf2
next month the numbers might be lower

Quote from Anon
I'd expect it to fall slightly next month, but it'll probably still be above 1.5%
I hope they put in a Linux tab at that point, so we can see more detailed info.

That's not how it works. You're only counted for this if you're asked to participate in the survey. So unless they ran a Linux VM to get a tux and then accepted and took the survey in said VM... it shouldn't drop at all.

Quote me

Comment by Joe on March 1 at 11:40 pm Link To Me
	That's 80% growth month over month. By this rate Linux will have easily passed Mac around the middle of the year. Quote me

Comment by muntdefems on March 1 at 11:59 pm Link To Me
Editor	Quote from Joe That's 80% growth month over month. By this rate Linux will have easily passed Mac around the middle of the year. Not really. Assuming the Mac share doesn't change significantly, with another 80% growth we would already pass them before the end of this month. Quote me

Comment by FutureSuture on March 2 at 12:25 am Link To Me
	And this is without DOTA2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Left 4 Dead 2 i.e. the Valve games that are not yet out for Linux and have considerably more players a day than any other Valve games. Once those hit, we should see another increase. I cannot wait! Go Linux! Quote me

Comment by Yannis on March 2 at 1:09 am Link To Me
	LINUX WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD! Quote me