Do you mean 1:19? Or that the actual value is 5.26%, which would give 1/19 instead of 1/20?

Though I'll say that after I finally switched (as win 10 end of life loomed and win 11 looked worse even before copilot was integrated into everything), I regretted waiting so long. Just going through the install process without the whole "oh and of course you want these other things shoved down your throat, either now or later" and not needing to immediately dig through the settings because a design philosophy was "the user is stupid and needs to be protected from their own mistakes" and their other design philosophies for their UIs seem to be drawn weekly from a hat.

Ok, but, hear me out, Mint and Ubuntu are down stream of Debian. Like, realistically, you can build any distro using the package manager it’s built on.

Isn't it randomly batched out to the whatever like 18 million steam users every day and it automatically collects it?

I've never manually input my system specs into a steam hardware survey. Idk why you'd think people can lie or why using publicly collected data frequently and across a massive population makes someone an idiot.

Your way of interacting online seems unhealthy.

Doesn't mostly every survey have that pitfall?

That begs the question of whether or not people who refuse surveys are biased towards any particular OS. I'd guess they'd be more likely to use Linux than Windows, so the actual percentage is probably higher. But, unfortunately they are difficult to study.

Though not impossible. First ask if they prefer Windows or Linux. Then ask them if they are willing to participate in a study.

I suspect it's actually the opposite. Linux users want more and better Linux support, so they want to show that it's being used.

I think it compensates cause you have many I use arch btw people.

Nobody skews numbers more than Microsoft so more power to the Linux users.

I do! I mainly use Linux but if the survey pops up when I’m on Windows I always decline it.

Yeah, I take any of the sudden jumps with a grain of salt, figuring it's due to cybercafes getting more surveys or something like that. It usually bounces back the next month. The overall trend is more interesting to me than the specific numbers.