I took each rating for games on Wine Application Database, mapped them to numbers (Garbage -> 1, Bronze -> 2, Silver -> 3, Gold -> 4, Platinum -> 5) and plotted a monthly average.
The left axis is average number of ratings per app. As all rating except the 3 month, 6 month etc lines have dropped then to me this suggests there has been an explosion in the number of apps in the database.
The more apps, means more smaller apps with frwer user ratings so the lower the average number of ratings per app overall would be?
The left axis is total number of ratings of each type (Garbage, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) in a given month (not per app). For example for month 2016-07 there were
"Garbage" => 22
"Bronze" => 14
"Silver" => 13
"Gold" => 55
"Platinum" => 61
On right side is the average rating. So if I assign values to each rating:
"Garbage" => 1
"Bronze" => 2
"Silver" => 3
"Gold" => 4
"Platinum" => 5
I can get an average rating, which will be between 1 to 5.
((22*1) + (14*2) + (13*3) + (55*4) + (61*5)) / (22 + 14 + 13 + 55 + 61)
~= 3.721
Proton?
I don't get "Number of ratings" on the y scale. I tjought it's an average number?
GPU passthrough for virtual machines became way more accessible around 2016. From my personal experiences, I got more into figuring out Wine and Linux stuff in general once I knew I could pass a GPU to my virtual machines.
~~DXVK~~. ~~2016~~ was when I moved to Linux as my primary operating system because with DXVK, most of my games ran overnight.
Edit: Oops I missed the mark, DXVK occurred in 2018, I was off by two years. My bad.
is this the ratings on winehq? I could see the count of apps exploding on that page but ordinary users aren't going to visit there to know they can even contribute that sort of qualitative stat
Yes it is the ratings on winehq, https://appdb.winehq.org/
And yes, an average user probably going to fire a game, figure out it is not working, and promptly go back to windows, which makes that data less accurate, but what can we do about it?
Could you please plot this as a 100% area chart instead?
Here you go
That is a very different picture, isn't it!
It's the same picture.
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