Steam Linux Usage Rose 0.1% During September

[russofris]

The two things I noticed..

1: The rise in OS X/Linux correlates to the overall decrease in Windows users.
2: SteamOS doesn't appear on the graph.

[edoantonioco]

Where are the "other" operating systems? They used to be there during the previous surveys! I don't use Ubuntu, neither the ancient Linux 3.10!

I hve the same doubt. Does this means than I have never been included in this survey?

[Kivada]

Thanks! Just curious, but so we know how Valve consider an account "active"? Is it that the user logged every week/month/year? Or just logged in during last week/month/year?

I'd guess logging in at least once every 2 weeks, because that is the cutoff for receiving random booster packs of trading cards. If you don't it apparently invalidates those games you could receive packs for.

[GreatEmerald]

Meanwhile StatCounter says Linux increased by 0.01% (1.38 → 1.39), albeit it dropped 0.04% in Europe (1.84 → 1.8).
Also interestingly enough, on July there was 100% Linux usage in Antarctica! Though I thought they would generally use quite a bit of Linux, being scientists and all...

[verde]

51% is using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit + 7% 32bit and if you add some older versions not listed in top4 (mostly 12.04 users and some still using 13.10) you can safely assume that Ubuntu count for ~65-70% of all Linux home users.

Definitely the most popular Linux OS.

[Vidar]

Thanks! Just curious, but so we know how Valve consider an account "active"? Is it that the user logged every week/month/year? Or just logged in during last week/month/year?

An Active User is someone who has logged at least once in the last 90 days and owns at least 1 paid game. Smurf accounts created for Dota 2, for example, are not counted unless they own a paid game as well and are used at least once every 90 days.

[tarceri]

51% is using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit + 7% 32bit and if you add some older versions not listed in top4 (mostly 12.04 users and some still using 13.10) you can safely assume that Ubuntu count for ~65-70% of all Linux home users.

Definitely the most popular Linux OS.

I haven't gone back and checked but I'm pretty sure this percentage used to be higher. Maybe people really are moving on since Ubuntu shifted a lot of its focus to mobile.

[Kemosabe]

51% is using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit + 7% 32bit and if you add some older versions not listed in top4 (mostly 12.04 users and some still using 13.10) you can safely assume that Ubuntu count for ~65-70% of all Linux home users.

Definitely the most popular Linux OS.

I really don't like this. Thus i have to correct: you can safely assume that Ubuntu count for ~65-70% of all Linux home users, who actually play steam games at all.

[pal666]

51% is using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit + 7% 32bit and if you add some older versions not listed in top4 (mostly 12.04 users and some still using 13.10) you can safely assume that Ubuntu count for ~65-70% of all Linux home users.

Definitely the most popular Linux OS.

most popular linux(and overall) os is android
and you can assume nothing because ubuntu is the only(non-steamos) distro supported by steam