{"id":296,"date":"2013-08-15T16:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/?p=296"},"modified":"2013-08-15T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:14:13","slug":"steam-hardware-survey-all-linux-distributions-increase-in-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/2013\/steam-hardware-survey-all-linux-distributions-increase-in-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Hardware Survey: All Linux distributions increase in popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve's Hardware Survey for July 2013 shows an increase in usage for every recorded Linux distribution, with each distribution seeing increases between 7-22%. As every single distribution seems to be increasing in popularity, I interpret this to mean that as time goes on more people are trying gaming on Linux and they are staying with Linux.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Distribution<\/th>\n<th>Proportion of users<\/th>\n<th>Increase as proportion of total users<\/th>\n<th>Relative increase<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit<\/td>\n<td>0.43%<\/td>\n<td>+0.03%<\/td>\n<td>+7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit<\/td>\n<td>0.20%<\/td>\n<td>+0.02%<\/td>\n<td>+10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ubuntu 13.04<\/td>\n<td>0.13%<\/td>\n<td>+0.01%<\/td>\n<td>+8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS<\/td>\n<td>0.11%<\/td>\n<td>+0.01%<\/td>\n<td>+9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linux 64 bit<\/td>\n<td>0.10%<\/td>\n<td>+0.01%<\/td>\n<td>+10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linux Mint 15 Olivia 64 bit<\/td>\n<td>0.09%<\/td>\n<td>+0.02%<\/td>\n<td>+22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td>1.06%<\/td>\n<td>+0.10%<\/td>\n<td>+9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Note that due to the precision of data that is provided there are likely to be rounding issues, so the relative result in the right hand column could be +\/- a few percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve's Hardware Survey for July 2013 shows an increase in usage for every recorded Linux distribution, with each distribution seeing increases between 7-22%. As every single distribution seems to be increasing in popularity, I interpret this to mean that as time goes on more people are trying gaming on Linux and they are staying with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}