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Linux market share on Steam over time (Sep 2023 - 1.63%) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What happened in squint eyes March 23?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After looking at the other graphs, it coincides with a spike for simplified Chinese, which means for some reason a lot of people in presumably china were way more active on that month.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago

Valve screws up the survey surprisingly often. As you said, usually PC cafes (which are very popular in Asia) skew the data when that happens.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam Deck was a huge W for Linux gaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just want to be able to buy them from reputable merchants in Australia

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm in this graph and I like it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I will be in this graph very soon, just need to load the drive into the case and hook it up 🥳 (Soon to be) bye Bill Bing(Gates)!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

https://xkcd.com/2701/

This isn't a linear trend. Probably a slightly geomtric trend. Source: I turned my phone sideways to analyze the line.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are... are we the ~~baddies~~ one percent?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The smart 1%

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I found more interesting is already bigger that mac os

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why is it declining rn?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

It's a percentage so likely one of the other groups expanded. Guessing the dip is due to more MacOS users.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Stars moved

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Statistical noise. The survey isn't accurate enough to overanalyze every data point; that's what the trend line is there for.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Steam deck go brrr

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