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submitted 1 day ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Article has some observation about the new statistics provided by Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam.

The Steam on Linux marketshare ended 2024 with a 2.29% against Windows at 96.1% and macOS at 1.61%. The Steam Survey numbers for January were posted this evening and they show a sizable dip for the Linux gaming use but there are also other odd discrepancies with the updated monthly figures.

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Where things get odd though is that the January results show the English language use dropping by 8.17% down to 33.97%... Most other languages dropping too and no explanation where the 8%+ usage went from the English use.

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[-] Obelix@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Since every language seems to be dropping percentage-wise: What is the market Steam is growing so much in? India?

[-] Danitos@reddthat.com 5 points 21 hours ago

The last time (some 7 months ago) something like happened it ended up being that the Steam survey had a bug that oversampled Chinesse machines. Maybe something similar happened.

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