We recently switched our survey system from a monolithic bi-yearly survey to a monthly rolling survey with a subset of the userbase each month, so we can get a continuous view of changes in hardware amongst our users.
We have 2 months of good data to date, Wine usage has increased from 0.33 to 0.36% over that month, but given the small number of Wine responses any increase would be in the margins of error. So Wine usage looks steady since last year amongst the Steam usebase as a whole.
As always the Steam Survey is an opt-in system so usual reporting biases could apply.
- Alfred
-----Original Message----- From: wine-devel-bounces@winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel- bounces@winehq.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchie Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:21 AM To: Evil Jay Cc: Wine Devel Subject: Re: New steam survey statistics?
Evil Jay wrote:
I too would be interested in seeing the numbers, but I'm not sure
you're
going to see the correlation you expect, Scott.
While Linux adoption may have grown, Valve has probably been selling just as many, if not more games to customers who already owned
Windows
but had never used Steam.
A priori, I don't think there's any reason to expect a decrease in Wine's steam marketshare unless there's something that's made it relatively worse compared with a Windows install. The release of BioShock over steam, for instance, was such a reason since it didn't work on Wine, but that happened before the previous survey. New video cards not having (good) Linux drivers would be a similar reason, but
as
I understand it the newer video cards have better Linux drivers these days than the old ones.
On the other hand, we've seen some serious relative improvements to Wine
- Wine 1.0, Crossover Games, new distro releases, increased Linux
desktop marketshare. Maybe 1% is too high, but I'm certainly not expecting a decrease.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie