Steam Linux Marketshare Ticks Up Higher For September

[skeevy420]

What?

I just picked four names at random and put two into quotes -- two of them I know the github addresses for and two I don't.

It makes about as much sense as Arch and Manjaro being in quotes and Ubuntu and Ubuntu LTS not under Steam's OS list

[tildearrow]

Possibly, but Manjaro does have versioned releases now. Still rolling, but the release number gets bumped after enough major packages get updated. Been like that for the past year-ish. Still, it's just odd to me that it's Ubuntu and "Arch".

Some pretty smart Phoronix posters[LIST=1][*]tildearrow[*]Ryao[*]"starshipeleven"[*]"Grogan"[*][/LIST]

What?

[skeevy420]

To put the 0.83% in perspective, it is more than the entire Italian speaking community on steam, which is at 0.78%

And they're barely telling us half of what that .83% consists of. Add up their numbers and Arch, Manjaro, Ubuntu, & Ubuntu LTS make up .44%. Makes me wonder what the other .43% are using.

Maybe that's Steam's way of saying to us, "Use Ubuntu, Arch, or Manjaro"?

So, do we get an Italian voice reveal if you get 4M likes?

[Raka555]

To put the 0.83% in perspective, it is more than the entire Italian speaking community on steam, which is at 0.78%

[swagg_boi]

My Fedora desktop shows up as Unknown (64 bit) and Slackware laptop as Linux 4.4 (64 bit). Not a big deal, I'm glad Valve shows Linux as much love as it does considering we're a percent of a percent but checking a distro in my experience is as simple as doing `cat /etc/*-release`; I do this on servers at work at various jobs I've had just out of curiosity to see which distro/version we have out there. I guess Ubuntu & Manjaro would cover most users but I'm always curious if there's people out there gaming on distros that would be more unusual/obscure choices like RHEL or Void

[syrjala]

I just copy/pasted this from Steam because I noticed something odd.



So, um, I have to ask: Why are Arch & Manjaro in parentheses, Steam? Why are we "different"?

Oneword vs. "Two words"

[skeevy420]

Possibly because they are rolling releases and they don't grab specific distro versions for the stats?

Possibly, but Manjaro does have versioned releases now. Still rolling, but the release number gets bumped after enough major packages get updated. Been like that for the past year-ish. Still, it's just odd to me that it's Ubuntu and "Arch".

Some pretty smart Phoronix posters[LIST=1][*]tildearrow[*]Ryao[*]"starshipeleven"[*]"Grogan"[*][/LIST]

[Templar82]

So, um, I have to ask: Why are Arch & Manjaro in parentheses, Steam? Why are we "different"?

I assume that's how they identify to the steam survey, likely a developer choice.

[Grogan]

Possibly because they are rolling releases and they don't grab specific distro versions for the stats?

[skeevy420]

I just copy/pasted this from Steam because I noticed something odd.

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 64 bit
Ubuntu 19.04 64 bit
"Arch Linux" 64 bit
"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit

So, um, I have to ask: Why are Arch & Manjaro in parentheses, Steam? Why are we "different"?