Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data

Valve just published their October 2023 stats for the monthly Steam Survey and they point to a nearly quarter point drop in the Linux usage after previously hitting its own highs...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-October-2023

[tildearrow]

Typo:

With these nubmers

[bachchain]

Has there, to date, been a month where Steam's Linux data hasn't been "questionable"?

[NeoMorpheus]

Steam survey will not be accurate until its run on 100% of active devices.

And i dont even know if my ChimeraOS system is counted at all, since i havent seen one survey there, neither on my win11 drive, when swapped.

[Sonadow]

Yep. typical Linux fan logic:

Steam survey results are always questionable unless there is a notable increase in Linux users. Then it's all rainbows and unicorns.

[and.elf]

I think reason to the skewed statistics is that they don't seem to use all user telemetry every month. It seems to be random

[Setif]

So, When Survey represents the true percentage to users (Given that Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world) It will be questionable.

[sarmad]

Yep. typical Linux fan logic:

Steam survey results are always questionable unless there is a notable increase in Linux users. Then it's all rainbows and unicorns.

We did question the numbers when Linux percentage jumped to close to 2% out of nowhere. Maybe you just remember what you want to remember.

[sarmad]

So, When Survey represents the true percentage to users (Given that Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world) It will be questionable.

It's not about how widely spoken Mandarin is; it's about why those Mandarin speakers all of a sudden decided to all jump on Steam. It's not like Mandarin localization was added to Steam in October.

[darkbasic]

The survey is shit: I've basically never got it before and recently I've got it ten times in a row when trying different properties for my steam dataset.
Basically every single time I flushed the steam profile and reopened the steam client I've got it.