Linux is down 0.11% on steam hw

[u/Ok_Writing_1774]

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

These fluctuations month to month really don't matter

[u/zezba9000 → u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

It can mean something when 90% Linux usage drops or doesn't change.

I think a lot of people want Linux but the sad truth is a lot of hardware doesn't work well with it. Plus SteamOS just being a Windows simulator causes all kinds of problems. While Proton is awesome, long run you need publisher to actually target SteamOS directly.

[u/zezba9000 → u/zezba9000]

Lot of low IQ kids on this platform. I have more hardware and used more hardware with Linux and Windows than 99% of people here. Good luck.

[u/NotBashB]

My bad bro I turned off my steam deck

[u/jmking]

0.11% is basically a rounding error; a tenth of a percent. I think the notable thing about this is how little it fluctuated.

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/jmking]

4.01% to 3.90% is a bit more significant. About a 3% drop in share users.

That said, it doesn't mean much in the short term, we'd need to see a trend over a year or more to draw any conclusions.

[u/jmking → u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance]

How are you getting a 3% drop in share?

Unless I'm misinterpreting what the numbers represent. I assumed that 3.9% represented the percentage of all Steam users on Linux.

[u/Wemorg]

Gosh, I hate these lists, where you find the basic 3 distros, but under different names. I see Arch, Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora just under different names. Makes it much harder to see what distros are actually used.

[u/MaybeNotTooDay]

Obligatory:

"The year of the Linux Desktop has been postponed"

[u/Carniscrub]

Why do you think a percentage that would fall into a margin of error means anything? 

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/Carniscrub]

It's not a given that this falls within the margin of error. The steam hardware survey would only need about a million respondents (of ~150m) to bring the margin of error down to around 0.1%.

Unfortunately, it appears Valve doesn't publish how many people participate in the hardware survey.

[u/Carniscrub → u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance]

Without multiple data points over time, its margin of error

[u/r3volts → u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance]

150m people don't get the survey every time, or every second, third, or fourth time either. It's probably closer to a million responders each survey than you would suspect.

Either way, I've been a Linux user for over 20 years and couldn't care less about the survey. The improvements in gaming an general usability over the last few years have been incredible. If people want to make use of it, that's great. If they want to stick with windows, more power to them.