2y ago

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

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

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What happened in squint eyes March 23?
- 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.
  
  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.
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.
I'm in this graph and I like it.
- 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)!
Hopefully the data here only consists of desktop Linux users. If it includes SteamOS users then it kind of skews the data...
Edit: Jesus, so much hostility right off the bat. Chill the fuck out people. I don't hate Linux and I'm not even upset. I'm talking about statistics—it says "on Steam", and thus any data that is by definition a part of Steam is a form of statistical bias. It's a part of Steam, so of course it's going to be "on Steam". It skews the reliability of the graph.
- But why? It is a full Linux distro. All games compatible to the Steam deck also run on other distros. So the motivation to develop for Linux is the same and we users of other destroy profit from that the same.
- In what fucking way does a Linux OS skew the data for Linux OS usage?
- It's Linux though?
  
  Yes. And it has package manager.
- Why? Is it annoying to you that there is finally some device with out of the box usable Linux for gaming?
- Looks like SteamOS is about 50% https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux
- Don't know how that would be. A gain for the Steam Deck is a gain for everyone else on Linux too.
- Look for a large spike, that'd be the deck.
  
  Jump, not spike
Are... are we the ~~baddies~~ one percent?
- The smart 1%
I found more interesting is already bigger that mac os
- Don't you have to pay for Wine on Mac?
Why is it declining rn?
- Stars moved
- It's a percentage so likely one of the other groups expanded. Guessing the dip is due to more MacOS users.
- Statistical noise. The survey isn't accurate enough to overanalyze every data point; that's what the trend line is there for.
Steam deck go brrr
this 1.63 could be 90% if it wasn't for companies like valve but sure, let's celebrate some useless proprietary app on the linux sub
- Microsoft owns github and google run android. They have worked and invested a lot in open source projects except they do it only out of convenience and it's just a fraction of what they actually do. Making proprietary software available for linux only extend companies reach.
- I didn't realize this was a FOSS only sub
  sent from Boost
- Okay then, let's not celebrate the main driving force behind gaming on Linux.
  
  I would argue the main driving force behind gaming on Linux are these dev who publish their games for linux
  https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page
- Why? I'm really curious why you think that. Or what do you mean with this comment.
  
  Steam policies are against everything linux stand for. It's a closed source third party launcher where they rent games under DRM and steal all sort of data while doing so. Valve created a small monopoly in wich videogames makers are abducted in routing their games through their useless launcher to get some visibility. They also abducted people to install their proprietary app to play certain games.

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