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[-] moebius@feddit.de 68 points 2 years ago

What happened in squint eyes March 23?

[-] moebius@feddit.de 84 points 2 years ago

After looking at the other graphs, it coincides with a spike for simplified Chinese, which means for some reason a lot of people in presumably china were way more active on that month.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 years ago

Valve screws up the survey surprisingly often. As you said, usually PC cafes (which are very popular in Asia) skew the data when that happens.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago

https://xkcd.com/2701/

This isn't a linear trend. Probably a slightly geomtric trend. Source: I turned my phone sideways to analyze the line.

[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 44 points 2 years ago

I'm in this graph and I like it.

[-] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I will be in this graph very soon, just need to load the drive into the case and hook it up 🥳 (Soon to be) bye Bill Bing(Gates)!

[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hopefully the data here only consists of desktop Linux users. If it includes SteamOS users then it kind of skews the data...


Edit: Jesus, so much hostility right off the bat. Chill the fuck out people. I don't hate Linux and I'm not even upset. I'm talking about statistics—it says "on Steam", and thus any data that is by definition a part of Steam is a form of statistical bias. It's a part of Steam, so of course it's going to be "on Steam". It skews the reliability of the graph.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But why? It is a full Linux distro. All games compatible to the Steam deck also run on other distros. So the motivation to develop for Linux is the same and we users of other destroy profit from that the same.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 57 points 2 years ago

In what fucking way does a Linux OS skew the data for Linux OS usage?

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago
[-] uis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yes. And it has package manager.

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

Why? Is it annoying to you that there is finally some device with out of the box usable Linux for gaming?

[-] Grangle1@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

Don't know how that would be. A gain for the Steam Deck is a gain for everyone else on Linux too.

[-] H2207@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Look for a large spike, that'd be the deck.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Jump, not spike

[-] Decker108@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

Are... are we the ~~baddies~~ one percent?

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

The smart 1%

[-] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago

I found more interesting is already bigger that mac os

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Don't you have to pay for Wine on Mac?

[-] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago
[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago

Stars moved

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

It's a percentage so likely one of the other groups expanded. Guessing the dip is due to more MacOS users.

[-] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Statistical noise. The survey isn't accurate enough to overanalyze every data point; that's what the trend line is there for.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Steam deck go brrr

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 years ago

this 1.63 could be 90% if it wasn't for companies like valve but sure, let's celebrate some useless proprietary app on the linux sub

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

I didn't realize this was a FOSS only sub

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[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 25 points 2 years ago

Okay then, let's not celebrate the main driving force behind gaming on Linux.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 years ago

I would argue the main driving force behind gaming on Linux are these dev who publish their games for linux

https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 17 points 2 years ago

Right, because today's Linux gaming landscape is dominated by titles like... uh... Kobo Deluxe?

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

By that definition there is no gaming on Linux.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Why? I'm really curious why you think that. Or what do you mean with this comment.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 years ago

Steam policies are against everything linux stand for. It's a closed source third party launcher where they rent games under DRM and steal all sort of data while doing so. Valve created a small monopoly in wich videogames makers are abducted in routing their games through their useless launcher to get some visibility. They also abducted people to install their proprietary app to play certain games.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 13 points 2 years ago

This is going to be a surprise to you, but proprietary software is indeed allowed to exist on Linux.

[-] samson@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Linux doesnt stand for anything. Something being foss just means it's accessible.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 years ago

Linux comes with a license, read that.

[-] samson@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've read it. Nothing prescribes a foss philosophy outside of Linux itself. Or for that matter a dickhead attitude to those who don't subscribe to one.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The only open source and DRM free way to get games is by pirating them. That's not Valve's fault, that's the fault of the current copyright system. It would be nice if the Steam client was open source but that's also about all they could do. Banning DRM on Steam would just lead to big publishers using their own launchers exclusively and indie games don't use DRM anyway. Let's also not forget that Valve is contributing a lot to open source projects.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 years ago

The only open source and DRM free way to get games is by pirating them

Are you sure you know what the source code is? There are plenty of foss games:

https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

Valve pushed drms on the game industry, before they monopolized the market you used to buy the cd or install a game without the need of a useless proprietary launcher

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