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.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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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?
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
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". 👍
Too many LinusTechTips watchers got sad when Fortnite wouldn't run.
Good.
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
With the amount of Tumbleweed submissions on protondb I would have thought BSD would make the list by now