If we remove them from the survey, this leaves us with 75% of 5.33%, which is something around 3.96%.
I think the 5.33% is a bug, 3.96% sounds more realistic and in line with the growth linux was having before.
I think this is an error on the survey. Was anybody able to talk to Valve about this? I forgot which email to send this question to.
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BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 139d
There's no Fedora or any derivatives, so I imagine they failed to detect it correctly - it must be either hidden in other or in these two
funny_alias@europe.pub · 4 pts · 139d
I remember the last time I participated in the survey my Fedora system was summarised simply as "Linux 64bit" or something like that.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 139d
I assume that Fedora users might install Steam with Flatpak maybe?
lukalix98@programming.dev · 3 pts · 139d
I know I do.
poinck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
hikaru755@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Bazzite specifically might have contributed quite a bit to the recent growth
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 139d
"0 64bit" must be a few distributions lumped together by a processing script. "64bit" is probably CachyOS when comparing to last month's stats the ~8% match:
SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%
Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%
CachyOS 64 bit 8.59% +8.59%
Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%
Bazzite 64 bit 5.79% +5.79%
Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.26% -1.08%
Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.82% -0.10%
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit 2.83% -0.94%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%
Other 31.58% +16.20%
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online · 21 pts · 139d
Linux; 5.33%; +3.10%
The number of linux users more than doubled. 1 in 20 gamers use linux. Impressive.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 139d
When Chinese usage goes up in a month, they're just about all on Windows, which drags Linux usage down. A lot of Chinese players from last month did not return this month, and Linux usage went up. Linux users didn't double, but the total number of Windows users went down.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 139d
lath@piefed.social · 15 pts · 139d
They have laws against game addiction which limits time allowed online. And they're big on respecting traditions, so important national holidays have to be given their due deference or the youth will grow crooked.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 139d
ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
I don't know. A lot of people are saying this correlates to Chinese New Year, but I don't know how that correlates to video game playing. I do know they're largely only playing a handful of games like PUBG, Dota 2, and maybe Counter-Strike, so maybe they're coming and going according to new updates releasing for one of those games, but they do come and go in waves.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 139d
Time off, supposedly using computer cafes, as I've heard it explained here.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 139d
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d
it's because the previous month took a big dip due to the sampling involving a lot of Chinese users.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Either that or there are more glitches in Valve's script
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 138d
I see Ubuntu at the top and think yay, I still have the most popular version of Linux and... Oh that table is upside down, it seems I'm at the bottom here.
I feel old :(
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 2 pts · 137d
It's still top 9, anything with less share is in other.
wellbudyweek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 138d
It's also not upside down...
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lavOQrZbUC4
highball@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#engsplitanchor
Naa, it's not a bug. The Steam Hardware and Software survey is a random sampling of machines. Sometimes it's just an over sampling in some demographic. It seems to happen occasionally. I'm sure there will likely be a pull back as per usual. But, I think it will be more in the low to mid 4%. I think the network affect is finally kicking in. Always good to see YoY growth, so no complaints.