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