iirc, the steam survey data isn’t always well distributed, and so it isn’t the most reliable. Sometimes most of the surveyed are in China and the swings are more relevant to usage there, and then when the next survey comes out the shift is more based on demographic than broad trends. That being said, we will been seeing consistent growth on linux usage across the board for months so I don’t think this is a fluke
Sure, but there are so many Steam users every month, that even if only 1% or 0.1% of people get the survey, that’s still a ton of people (over 40M concurrent, estimated 130M+ users every month)
Also, have the Linux users increased by over 50% month-to-month? The jump from ~3% at the start of the year to over 5% is huge.
It’s possible there was something wrong with the data before and the 3% wasn’t accurate or there’s something wrong now and the 5% is not correct. That’s all I’m saying.
iirc, the steam survey data isn’t always well distributed, and so it isn’t the most reliable. Sometimes most of the surveyed are in China and the swings are more relevant to usage there, and then when the next survey comes out the shift is more based on demographic than broad trends. That being said, we will been seeing consistent growth on linux usage across the board for months so I don’t think this is a fluke
Sure, but there are so many Steam users every month, that even if only 1% or 0.1% of people get the survey, that’s still a ton of people (over 40M concurrent, estimated 130M+ users every month)
Also, have the Linux users increased by over 50% month-to-month? The jump from ~3% at the start of the year to over 5% is huge.
It’s possible there was something wrong with the data before and the 3% wasn’t accurate or there’s something wrong now and the 5% is not correct. That’s all I’m saying.