Urmas
Steam is a game platform, and here's some facts from their own info web
page - quote "As of December 2012, there are nearly 2000 games available
through Steam,^and 54 million active user accounts. As of January 2013,
Steam has seen over 6.6 million concurrent players. Steam has an
estimated 50--70% share of the digital distribution market for video
games.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28software%29#cite_note-Graft-8>
^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28software%29#cite_note-9> As of
January 2013 they have 6.6 million active gamers." unquote
Note the video games part. So your stats of 14% are the measure of
either the 54 million active accounts, or the 6.6 million active users,
which is it. Now compare that to 1.1 billion computers around the world,
a big difference to your percentage running Windows 8 and trying to
compare with Linux. Linux desktop is estimated to be around 2% of the
worlds computers, again comparable, not left behind by your stats of
Windows 8. On the internet alone there are 10 million core major
computer systems running Linux, and about 120 million sub servers also
running Linux, so your 14% of 54 million compares poorly to your
supplied stats.
And I'll quote you again with fact about Linux servers, especially the
last paragraph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Servers, mainframes and supercomputers
Servers designed for Linux
Linux distributions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution>
have long been used as server
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29> operating
systems, and have risen to prominence in that area; Netcraft
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcraft> reported in September 2006 that
eight of the ten most reliable internet hosting companies ran Linux
distributions on their web servers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server>. Since June 2008, Linux
distributions represented five of the top ten, FreeBSD
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD> three of ten, and Microsoft
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft> two of ten; since February
2010, Linux distributions represented six of the top ten, FreeBSD two of
ten, and Microsoft one of
ten.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-80>
Linux distributions are the cornerstone of the LAMP
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29>
server-software combination (Linux, Apache
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server>, MySQL
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>, Perl
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl>/PHP
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP>/Python
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>) which
has achieved popularity among developers, and which is one of the more
common platforms for website
hosting.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-SecuritySpace-81>
Linux distributions have become increasingly popular on mainframes in
the last decade partly due to pricing and the open-source model. In
December 2009, computer giant IBM <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM>
reported that it would predominantly market and sell mainframe-based
Enterprise Linux
Server.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-The_Register-82>
Linux distributions are also commonly used as operating systems
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> for supercomputers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer>: since November 2010, out
of the top 500 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500> systems, 459
(91.8%) run a Linux distribution. Linux was also selected as the
operating system for the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's
Sequoia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Sequoia> which became
operational in 2011.^
Unquote
Andrew Brown
On 01/08/2013 12:22 PM, Urmas wrote:
According to http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey, Windows 8 is
working on 14% of computers.
It's more than 10 times Linux marketshare.
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