Valve Reveals More Steam Linux Distribution Details

Posted by Michael Larabel on March 17, 2013

Valve's hardware/software survey for Steam that shows details about their user-base, is now showing a lot more Linux distribution details.

At the beginning of March, the February details were revealed that showed overall about ~2% Linux usage and about one percent behind the Apple OS X adoption levels. Only Ubuntu and a few other distributions were shown but now in an updated version of the list are a whole lot more.

The survey can be found in full at SteamPowered.com while embedded below is the Linux list. Overall, the Linux usage is just at under 2.5%.

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit: 0.71%
Ubuntu 12.10: 0.38%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit: 0.31%
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS: 0.20%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit: 0.17%
Linux 64 bit: 0.14%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit: 0.11%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS: 0.06%
Linux Mint 14 Nadia: 0.05%
"Arch Linux" 64 bit: 0.05%
Linux Mint 13 Maya 64 bit: 0.04%
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) 64 bit: 0.03%
"Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)" 64 bit: 0.03%
"openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)" 64 bit: 0.03%
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) 64 bit: 0.02%
Linux: 0.02%
Linux Mint 13 Maya: 0.02%
"Gentoo Base System release 2.1" 64 bit: 0.01%
"Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)" 64 bit: 0.01%
elementary OS Luna 64 bit: 0.01%
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 0.01%
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy): 0.01%
Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch): 0.01%
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit: 0.01%
"Gentoo Base System release 2.2" 64 bit: 0.01%
"Arch Linux": 0.01%
"openSUSE 12.2 (i586)": 0.01%
Linux 3.2 64 bit: 0.00%
"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit: 0.00%
Linux 3.2: 0.00%
elementary OS Luna: 0.00%
"NAME=Gentoo" 64 bit: 0.00%
Ubuntu-Secure-Remix 12.10 30nov2012 64 bit: 0.00%
"Chakra Linux" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)": 0.00%
"Chakra" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)": 0.00%
Zorin OS 6 64 bit: 0.00%
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) 64 bit: 0.00%
"Sabayon Linux amd64 11" 64 bit: 0.00%
"Manjaro Linux": 0.00%
Linux Mint 12 Lisa 64 bit: 0.00%

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