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Here's the latest Steam Hardware survey for December 2014, and Linux actually increased, but not by a lot.
Linux results for December 2014
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.42% -0.01%
Ubuntu 14.10 64 bit 0.14% +0.01%
Linux 3.10 64 bit 0.10% +0.01%
Linux Mint 17 Qiana 64 bit 0.09% -0.03%
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 0.06% 0.00%
Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca 64 bit 0.06% +0.06%
Total: 1.16% + 0.03%
Last Month: 1.13%
My thoughts on it
The biggest change as expected for December, was from some people (like myself) moving to the new release of Linux Mint. A small movement from Ubuntu 14.04 to it's latest release and to the mysterious "Linux 3.10" which is most probably Arch.... and that is it for this month.
Important things to remember
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 remember it is a survey, so it won't ask every single one of you to do it. It would only be truly accurate if it did it behind the scenes, but that's not what a survey is for this is just to get a general idea.
Final Note: Look at it this way, Steam has around 100 million active users, 1% of 100 million is about 1,000,000 (1 million) people. What developer wouldn't want to hook into a market that big? Of course it doesn't mean they are guaranteed that amount of sales, but it's something fun to remember.
See the survey on Steam here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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n30p1r4t3 12 Jan 2015
Isn't steamos still on 3.10?
Yeah, that is what it looks like on their GitHub page.
If it is SteamOS that their are showing, it is weird how they don't actually say "SteamOS" though
naah.. how many times it has to be said..its the distro that has no lsb-release package installed..
you can try it easily with uninstalling this package and checking steam hardware info.
you can also try different distros in vbox and test it
Did I say SteamOS was THAT distro? I was merely asking a question as I haven't had time to update my steamOS install.
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Although we, the Linux gamers, know not to put much faith in to the Steam survey results, unfortunately Farsight, Blizzard and other companies are viewing those stats as hard evidence NOT to support our beloved operating system.
I am trying to prove Blizzard wrong with my survey currently taking place at change.org where one of the people who is receiving a copy of each signature is the CEO/Co-Founder Mr. Morhaime.
I am trying to prove Blizzard wrong with my survey currently taking place at change.org where one of the people who is receiving a copy of each signature is the CEO/Co-Founder Mr. Morhaime.
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i only got the survey once while logged into linux, the other times i was playing games in win, and hated taking it because linux is my primary habitat.
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ElectricPrism 16 Jan 2015
I never got this survey popup, so I think there's something fishy about Steam Hardware Surveys..
I've gotten the survey 3 times in the last year on 2 computers. Granted my library is about 100+ Linux Games and I play DOTA. (Also I'm exclusive to Linux and login to steam daily.)
I've gotten it twice on ElementaryOS and once on Arch. Granted I do have at least 6 Linux PCs I manage.
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