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Monthly, Steam conducts a survey, gathering data from participants in order to evaluate certain decisions and future goals, yet, the Steam survey offers a clear look at what is happening in the recently-landed-in-Ubuntu-Software-Center Steam.

The February survey has been published, revealing interesting results, especially related to Ubuntu's penetration into the overall Steam usage.

Months ago, the Ubuntu community witnessed the exciting news of the upcoming arrival of Steam on Ubuntu, news shortly followed by Valve's testing process, where interested gamers received access to ALPHA and BETA stages of Steam for Linux.

Just now, the Steam client landed in Ubuntu Software Center, allowing users to install the powerful gaming software via the easiness of the Ubuntu Software Center.

Months ago, Valve announced and released a long-awaited possibility for Ubuntu, namely, the availability of Steam for Ubuntu, allowing gamers to enjoy exciting Steam games.

The availability of Steam under Ubuntu has been received with numerous and numerous positive reactions of users thrilled by running Steam directly from their Ubuntu desktop, aspect (in some cases) generating the removal of proprietary OSes from their computers, proprietary OSes used only for Steam.

Weeks ago, Valve announced and published a Steam for Linux BETA project, project aimed at inviting a group of gamers to use Steam for Linux (in a BETA stage).

Valve has announced the public availability of the Steam client for Linux BETA, allowing users from across the world to enjoy the exciting application.

Days ago, Valve's Drew Bliss attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit R and, along with explaining the reasons behind choosing Ubuntu and future plans of Steam on Ubuntu, talked about an upcoming Steam for Linux BETA (Ubuntu), event long-awaited by numerous gamers across the Ubuntu community.

Powerful gaming experience on Ubuntu is an aspect starting to be materialized via numerous games landed in Ubuntu Software Center (or available via USC) in the latest months, furthermore, it seems that new exciting games are to arrive in Ubuntu in the near future.

Weeks ago, Valve published a hugely important statement, announcing that Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 are coming to Ubuntu 12.04, adding themselves to the already existing Ubuntu's "wave" of popular games enrichment.

After the announcement, obviously, the Valve developers have started working on refining, testing, tweaking, developing, etc, parts of their game stack, bundle of development actions oriented towards Linux (Ubuntu), probably with the end goal to deliver zero-compromise fully usable properly optimized games for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

2012 is definitely a relevant period of time as related to games landing in Ubuntu, statement fully backed by Ubuntu's "adoption" of serious games and game companies, such as EA, the widely known Humble Indie Bundle (available via Ubuntu Software Center), etc, making Ubuntu progressively an enjoying and solid platform not only for applications, security enhancements, stability, etc, but also for games via the constant arrival of high-quality games and game-creation platforms.