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.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    10 hours ago

    “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%

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        9 hours ago

        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.

          • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
            5·
            3 hours ago

            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.

          • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            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.worldEnglish
              5·
              6 hours ago

              A lot of people are saying this correlates to Chinese New Year, but I don’t know how that correlates to video game playing.

              Time off, supposedly using computer cafes, as I’ve heard it explained here.

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 hours ago

    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.pubEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I remember the last time I participated in the survey my Fedora system was summarised simply as “Linux 64bit” or something like that.