This is What Steam Gamers Have Installed on PC

[oldscotch]

IE is only installed on 20% and Acrobat (Reader) is on 74%? I find that hard to believe, people who get rid of IE are probably more likely to install Foxit than Acrobat.

 

[dragunover]

uTorrent is 100x better than BitTorrent.

 

[dragunover]

[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]How is 7-zip better, besides being open source? It's painfully slow compared to WinRAR or WinACE.[/citation]
7Zip is slower than WinRAR? Get your head out of 1999...

 

[Netherscourge]

uTorrent lets you have more upload control than BitTorrent, without reciprocally throtteling your downloads, if I recall correctly.

Thats why many use it instead.

 

[Maxor127]

[citation][nom]LATTEH[/nom]gotta love steam[/citation]
I don't. What's there to love?

 

[shin0bi272]

The concept that a LOT of you arent understanding is this "Opt-in" consists of the pop up message do you want to contribute to the valve hardware survey or whatever it says and theres a yes or no box ... it doesnt say here's what we are going to collect from your pc and possibly use against you later in court

 

[wellsoul2]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]Most people install it with iTunes without knowing. It's also a pre-requisite for movie previews on the Apple site, which is kind of cool. But, yeah, QT is a big pain in the butt.[/citation]

You need quicktime if you play music videos with itunes. When you play a video it is quicktime actually doing it not itunes.

 

[Xatos]

And 100% of everyone with Steam installed on their machine is a newb anyway.

 

[KBentley57]

[citation][nom]Xatos[/nom]And 100% of everyone with Steam installed on their machine is a newb anyway.[/citation]

I'm sorry, maybe you haven't played games, or kept up with things recently. Steam is an awesome way of buying games. Why worry about a scratched disk when you can have digital distribution? I can download my game from anywhere at any time. I only have 12/1 cable and when dl'ing a game, it saturates my connection! It's as fast as driving somewhere to get it.

Also, steam updates my games when its time, lets me keep in touch with friends, ect...

in other words: steam is awesome.

 

[raki]

why are some ppl freak abt Steam releasing a summaries version of their survey? Some other companies like Microsoft or Symantec may also has compilation some of the software in our machine for their internal use. I think Steam is being kind and open minded by sharing some of their finding to the steam community

 

[lashton]

lol steam run an survey and 100% of people have steam installed AWTF are they stuipid or something?

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]2real[/nom]who cares if IE is installed you're not forced to use it you can just take it off your task bar and replace it with opera and firefox like i do[/citation]
That doesn't remove IE, that just removes a shortcut. It's still wasted HDD space. Also, unnecessary additional software provides more chance for security exploits to be used against you.

[citation][nom]oldscotch[/nom]IE is only installed on 20% and Acrobat (Reader) is on 74%? I find that hard to believe, people who get rid of IE are probably more likely to install Foxit than Acrobat.[/citation]

That statistic is wrong. The chances are that IE is installed on 99% of those computers. There's no simple way of removing IE except for the executable itself.

 

[dEAne]

thanks I need this one.

 

[beayn]

Wow TeamSpeak is on there but not Ventrillo? I don't even know anyone who still uses TS.

 

[rawoysters]

"Games For Windows"... I wonder how many would have it installed if it wasn't forced upon you just to play a game?

 

[beayn]

I don't believe for a second that 80% of gamers removed IE. Why would anyone even bother uninstalling it? It's not like it screws anything up just sitting there not being used. Someone said something about wasted HD space... it's like 18 megs and everyone has an average of 500gb to 1tb now. That's like saying the hair on your desk takes up too much room.

This thing also says that Windows Media Player is only on 33% of computers. Who would bother removing that? There isn't even an alternative on the list. What are the other 67% using if VLC or Media Player Classic aren't on there?? Something definitely fishy about these stats.

QuickTime is NOT an alternative player. That is the bulkiest, slowest loading piece of crap out there and anyone who has it, has it only for porn or the Apple Movie Trailers site. It takes about 8 seconds to load on my SSD and all of Win7 only takes 14 seconds on bootup. I don't believe for a second that anyone who would uninstall IE would use QuickTime for a media player. 72mb download compared to 18mb for VLC, and VLC does WAY more (and loads instantly).

Something definitely wrong with these stats. I would suspect that Steam wasn't detecting all the install programs correctly.

 

[jamesedgeuk2000]

[citation][nom]dragunover[/nom]7Zip is slower than WinRAR? Get your head out of 1999...[/citation]

well put, 7zip is free unlike winrar, faster, and has better compression, do a search on the 7zip/winzip/winrar/etc comparison THG did a while ago

 

[kamen]

When you agree to this survey they take a snapshot of the total processes running. Open Task manager and that shows what they use as their basis for this survey. If it's not a running process then they don't know if you have it installed. That's why Firefox is over 60% and IE is around 20%, Chrome 11%, add in a few other browsers such as Opera and you hit 100%.

 

[Guest]

punkbuster?!
LOL

 

[feinel]

[citation][nom]beayn[/nom This thing also says that Windows Media Player is only on 33% of computers. Who would bother removing that? There isn't even an alternative on the list. What are the other 67% using if VLC or Media Player Classic aren't on there??[/citation]

Winamp is an alternative and is on that list, personally I use that for music and VLC for movies, and I'm kinda in awe at the fact VLC is not on that list.

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]feinel[/nom][citation][nom]beayn[/nom This thing also says that Windows Media Player is only on 33% of computers. Who would bother removing that? There isn't even an alternative on the list. What are the other 67% using if VLC or Media Player Classic aren't on there??[/citation]Winamp is an alternative and is on that list, personally I use that for music and VLC for movies, and I'm kinda in awe at the fact VLC is not on that list.[/citation]
VLC is on that list... I agree that Winamp is a must. In fact, I've been using it for so long that I just forgot about it while reading the article. I'm sure there are plenty of other good alternatives out there, and it's true that Winamp's UI hasn't change much in the past years, but to me it's still the best music player out there.

 

[zak_mckraken]

Oh wow, don't mind my comment, I thought it was the article "20 Must-Download Utilities For Windows 7"! 😛

 

[cj_online]

[citation][nom]bonezy[/nom]Most steam gamers probably eschew crApple products anyways. Bang for the buck, I personally love my Sansa Clip.[/citation]
My iPod smokes ur Sansa....

 

[kamen]

[citation][nom]cj_online[/nom]My iPod smokes ur Sansa....[/citation]
You smoke my poll...

 

[cj_online]

[citation][nom]kamen[/nom]You smoke my poll...[/citation]
I smoke u biatch.

kk im kidding... but srsly ppl... cut the crap... I'm no fanboy of Apple's.. infact I hate em, but when it comes to mp3/mp4 players... nothing compares...