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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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17 comments
Another month and again.. no survey for me :/
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I'm almost never logged on and have gotten this survey pretty much every 2-4 months like clockwork. Around the same time I would have gotten it if I was on that other software.
Maybe there's some account biased at work there?
Maybe there's some account biased at work there?
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I am unsure, but I never get it unless I boot into windows to test something gol related in IE and it pops up but never on Linux have I gotten it :(
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Same problem here. It pops up regular on Windows, but never on Linux :( So I don't really give much about this hardware survey.
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Never pops up on Ubuntu for me either. Did once before, then it's only on Windows every month. I really wonder how many Linux users it's actually surveying in reality...
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Thanks for keeping us updated! This website is just great. :D
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Thanks for keeping us updated! This website is just great. :DYou are welcome.
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Same here, no sign of this survey for me yet!
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Finally got the survey in September. And since I haven't used Windows once since the first week in August, I know it definitely counted against the linux total. Still, there are reports of windows users getting prompted regularly, and this is my first survey since Dec 2012! Admittedly, I hardly ever got prompted on Windows either...
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I got my first survey yesterday. I'm logged in every day.
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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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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.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
maybe 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.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.So weird you got it 6 times while most of have never :o
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