Its over. I’m going into hibernation until the next steam survey says we’re back
It’s still trending upwards, it’s just back to normal after a giant spike
0.3% change on the steam survey is not a “dip” it’s a blip.
When you only have 4% to begin with, 0.3% is not a blip lol. It’s almost 10% of your install base.
It’s the steam survey, it’s rough as guts. Why would anyone even post this ‘result’ let alone try to market it as ‘oh no linux is dying fam bro lol’
It’s 0.3%
Again - it’s 10% of the total Linux amount. It’s a lot.
The article isn’t saying Linux is dying, neither am I. Who is?
Assuming the top graph is accurate, it says a lot more about the reality, at least as far as steam ‘data’ is concerned https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
The ‘issue’ is not a “dip” in June, the issue is the May data/variance, as well as the April data/variance. June appears normal.
Steam result vary more than 0.3% just by user select variance. Very unstable.
0.3% over multiple month maybe around 10% of linux, but not for one month.
In sampling and statistics, I’m pretty sure there are terms for that. To account for the fact that not 100% of the population are being sampled. Hmmm, I wonder what that term is.
Too many LinusTechTips watchers got sad when Fortnite wouldn’t run.
Good.
These small variations tend to happen because the data is not perfect. The important thing is to see how it trends over time. When we clean up the data to reduce the noise of the ups and downs, we see that it’s trending up.
Bawwww, I was happy to be able to do my part for the steam linux charts for the first time, but it was not the month of the Linux desktop I guess
Do these surveys happen on a monthly basis? I’m not doing these on a monthly basis. So my data is not here. Could I participate automatically somehow, just by launching the Steam client?
I think steam randomly selects users each moth to contribute. You’ll get a pop up asking you to share.
Its been awhile since I took stats, but we should expect some fluctuations. Whether it’s statistically significant or not depends on the confidence intervals.
If I’m not mistaken, I can initiate the survey manually. I guess it’s not too much work. It collects all the information automatically anyway. Nothing to “fill out”. 👍
THE YEAR OF THE WINDOWS DESKTOP!
