Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.
Linux results for September 2013
Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit 0.45% +0.05%
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 64 bit 0.18% +0.18%
Ubuntu 13.04 0.12% 0.00%
Linux Mint 15 Olivia 64 bit 0.11% +0.03%
Linux 64 bit 0.10% 0.00%
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 0.07% +0.07%
Total: 1.03%
Last Month: 0.93%
My thoughts on it
Looks like we are holding steady, a tiny increase of 0.1%. With the announcement of SteamOS I hope this begind to slowly rise as peoples interest in Linux comes out thanks to it.
Things to note
The Other category may contain a few of the smaller Linux distro's like Fedora, Gentoo and Arch for example.
Other 0.72% +0.05%
Especially when before the main stats did contain quite a few more Linux distro's it's safe to assume some of the % is Linux as well.
There is this long bug report on Valve's github where a fair few users are stating they have never even seen the survey under Linux. I am one of them, yet I am logged in everyday.
Just be aware these results will probably not be that accurate as we don't know how they do their percentage results, they could be rounding up, rounding down or truncating the percentages. So a 0.5% could actually be nearly 0.6% as it could be 0.59% but they could do no rounding and simply truncate it.
Also it won't be every Steam user (it's a survey not a full statistic) so it can be as simple as not actually showing the survey to many Linux people. Let's face it we know they don't survey 100% of their user base, only a small fraction of it, so bear that in mind as well. Personally I am still yet to see it under Linux so it's not counting me that's for sure and I am logged in every day!
Also to note is that Linux is apparently only sitting at around 1.28% of the worldwide desktop share anyway according to Net Applications. Their reporting should also be taken lightly too since it's all using web-based counters.
Lastly Linux users typically shy away from any form of DRM, so you can bet there is a large bunch of Linux users who just simply refuse to use Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Linux results for September 2013
Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit 0.45% +0.05%
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 64 bit 0.18% +0.18%
Ubuntu 13.04 0.12% 0.00%
Linux Mint 15 Olivia 64 bit 0.11% +0.03%
Linux 64 bit 0.10% 0.00%
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 0.07% +0.07%
Total: 1.03%
Last Month: 0.93%
My thoughts on it
Looks like we are holding steady, a tiny increase of 0.1%. With the announcement of SteamOS I hope this begind to slowly rise as peoples interest in Linux comes out thanks to it.
Things to note
The Other category may contain a few of the smaller Linux distro's like Fedora, Gentoo and Arch for example.
Other 0.72% +0.05%
Especially when before the main stats did contain quite a few more Linux distro's it's safe to assume some of the % is Linux as well.
There is this long bug report on Valve's github where a fair few users are stating they have never even seen the survey under Linux. I am one of them, yet I am logged in everyday.
Just be aware these results will probably not be that accurate as we don't know how they do their percentage results, they could be rounding up, rounding down or truncating the percentages. So a 0.5% could actually be nearly 0.6% as it could be 0.59% but they could do no rounding and simply truncate it.
Also it won't be every Steam user (it's a survey not a full statistic) so it can be as simple as not actually showing the survey to many Linux people. Let's face it we know they don't survey 100% of their user base, only a small fraction of it, so bear that in mind as well. Personally I am still yet to see it under Linux so it's not counting me that's for sure and I am logged in every day!
Also to note is that Linux is apparently only sitting at around 1.28% of the worldwide desktop share anyway according to Net Applications. Their reporting should also be taken lightly too since it's all using web-based counters.
Lastly Linux users typically shy away from any form of DRM, so you can bet there is a large bunch of Linux users who just simply refuse to use Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Yup no survey for me either. haven't seen one since the first one. Right after steam for linux was released.
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Got my survey in late August. I rarely ever log in to the client. The lion's share of my steam activity is via the website, specifically to vote on Greenlight.
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None for me either, I'm afraid. And I'm a pretty frequent user, on and off the client.
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philip550c Oct 4, 2013
just got the survey today. Ive gotten it about 6 times in linux now and once in wine. Never in windows or mac, I do use all three but Im mainly in linux.
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Quoting: Quote from philip550cjust got the survey today. Ive gotten it about 6 times in linux now and once in wine. Never in windows or mac, I do use all three but Im mainly in linux.So weird you got it 6 times while most of have never :o
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The irony... because last week I set up a new steam in WINE and it just suddenly gave me survey in steam WINE. Of course I cancelled the survey :)
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philip550c Oct 4, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Snevmaybe it was 5, either way I have gotten it many times. I did submit the wine survey as well because steam surveys do show that you are using wine and not windows, so I was hoping that valve and other devs would see that a non windows user is interested in playing their games. Since I submitted many linux surveys I figured that it couldnt hurt. Had I gotten it in windows I would have rejected it. I wonder what the criteria is for selection? I do own about 700 games, not sure if that matters or not. I also sign in almost daily.Quoting: Quote from philip550cjust got the survey today. Ive gotten it about 6 times in linux now and once in wine. Never in windows or mac, I do use all three but Im mainly in linux.So weird you got it 6 times while most of have never :o
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