Steam Survey - June 2026 shows Linux dip to 3.69% : linux

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Its over. I'm going into hibernation until the next steam survey says we're back

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's still trending upwards, it's just back to normal after a giant spike

[+] nevyn@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When you only have 4% to begin with, 0.3% is not a blip lol. It’s almost 10% of your install base.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too many LinusTechTips watchers got sad when Fortnite wouldn't run.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Good.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 3 weeks ago

With the amount of Tumbleweed submissions on protondb I would have thought BSD would make the list by now

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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". 👍

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

THE YEAR OF THE WINDOWS DESKTOP!