I wonder what "building one's own Steam Machine" actually means.
I've got a Linux only PC, will continue to have it, will be replacing parts.
Maybe someday I'll buy a Steam Controller - does my PC get a Steam Machine by attaching it?
Or by installing SteamOS?
Or does it take both?
Or does it have to be built especially for that?
Or must it reside in the living room to qualify?
My best guess would be Steam Controller and SteamOS. (On the other hand they said that a Steam Machine may run Windows...)

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Quoting: a4360825Please stop circle-jerking!!! There is cca. 15-20 good quality ports (B2,Civ5,x-com,valve-games...) and all other is garbage, all Unity3D and C#/Mono/XNA/Flash based games are pure 5hit.

Ah...
You did play all 700, right?
Otherwise you obviously couldn't judge them.
I've got more than 20 good ports in my played-through-and-enjoyed-it category.
(BTW, do you know what Terry Pratchett wrote about using multiple exclamation marks?)

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Wasteland 2 and, still, Deponia

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Quoting: liamdaweThere isn't much point for a survey like this to split the distros up like that. That's going a little overboard in my opinion, this is to get a general idea.

Also I've filled it out myself now.

Just filled out as well.

I think 60% is too much of the pie not to be split up (and of course, especially SteamOS would be interesting).

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Hello,

thanks for the survey and for palnning to do it regularly!
You might consider to split up the Debian-based distros, like
( ) Debian
( ) Ubuntu
( ) SteamOS
( ) Mint?
( ) Other Debian-based distros

Ciao,
Eike

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Quoting: adolsonMaybe instead of saying Linux rises or Linux falls, we should look at the actual estimated user count every month, and base the fall / rise on the percentage of that.

Sounds good, but AFAIR, they don't publish the total number of users monthly.

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Quoting: subWe can safely assume those 0.1 % "raise" is close to the uncertainty bounds.
It makes no sense to interpret it as a trend.

+1
The numbers have been going down a bit, the numbers now have gone up a bit, ...

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Quoting: aLI would not join such group, since it seems silly. I think my money will support those who support me, without silliness and talks loud enough. Maybe im wrong about it, maybe im not... I cant really tell :)

I think it's like with many things: Some hundred in such a group don't make any difference, many thousands could.

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Quoting: FergleFergleson

Quoting: MaokeiI'm still have my doubts about this I never ever get the steam hardware survey anymore if this is what these percentages are based of.

I, too, can't remember the last time I saw the steam survey come up for me. But then, I usually leave Steam running 24x7 and as I recall, it only pops up when you start Steam. *shrug*

Most people are never asked for their voting decision either, nevertheless, the predictions ar enot bad...

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Quoting: Armand RaynalPlease Liam, create the steam groupe of people who don't buy games if they are not at least anouced for GNU/Linux.

With an article about it here, this groupe would grow fastly.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/OnlyBuyLinuxGames [External Link]

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