If we remove them from the survey, this leaves us with 75% of 5.33%, which is something around 3.96%.
I think the 5.33% is a bug, 3.96% sounds more realistic and in line with the growth linux was having before.
I think this is an error on the survey. Was anybody able to talk to Valve about this? I forgot which email to send this question to.
“0 64bit” must be a few distributions lumped together by a processing script. “64bit” is probably CachyOS when comparing to last month’s stats the ~8% match:
SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%
Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%
CachyOS 64 bit 8.59% +8.59%
Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%
Bazzite 64 bit 5.79% +5.79%
Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.26% -1.08%
Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.82% -0.10%
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit 2.83% -0.94%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%
Other 31.58% +16.20%
Linux; 5.33%; +3.10%
The number of linux users more than doubled. 1 in 20 gamers use linux. Impressive.
When Chinese usage goes up in a month, they’re just about all on Windows, which drags Linux usage down. A lot of Chinese players from last month did not return this month, and Linux usage went up. Linux users didn’t double, but the total number of Windows users went down.
Why did the Chinese numbers go down and now up again? What happened?
They have laws against game addiction which limits time allowed online. And they’re big on respecting traditions, so important national holidays have to be given their due deference or the youth will grow crooked.
Ah that makes total sense. And I like it :)
I don’t know. A lot of people are saying this correlates to Chinese New Year, but I don’t know how that correlates to video game playing. I do know they’re largely only playing a handful of games like PUBG, Dota 2, and maybe Counter-Strike, so maybe they’re coming and going according to new updates releasing for one of those games, but they do come and go in waves.
Time off, supposedly using computer cafes, as I’ve heard it explained here.
Hmm…sounds weird but I don’t know many Chinese so that’s that
it’s because the previous month took a big dip due to the sampling involving a lot of Chinese users.
Either that or there are more glitches in Valve’s script