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Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can we talk about the definition of a "surge", please!

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What percentage increase do you feel is required for surge to be a reasonable definition. A 35% increase feels surge-y me.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The council planted a new tree on my road, trees surged in population from 1 to 2 yesterday

[–] hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

100% surge is legit

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why we're talking about relative percentages.

In your example we would need to know how many trees existed on your road/city before. If there were less than 3 or 4 trees in your city before this, saying there was a surge is likely fine.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I gave you that information, I said "from 1 to 2" and added context of "a tree" (singular)

My terribly made point is that although technically correct when talking about relative increase it's dumb as fuck to say trees "surged in population" after adding just one more on one street. It's a drop on the ocean.

I feel like the term surge respects the final total relative to what its maximum could be as well as the relative increase. But obviously language is regional and up for interpretation

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I'm super confused by your point.

In this case we're looking at Steam.

I have no clue how many people submit to the steam survey, but I'll assume it's representative.

A quick google suggests steam has about 120 million active users.

Linux went from about 1.4% to 1.9%.

Rough math says Linux went from 1.7 million to about 2.3 million.

Or an increase of 600 000.

That a lot, both in relative terms and in real terms.

Here's a counter example for you.

You own stock in banana company. Over one day the price increases 2x. All the news agency's are talking about how banana surged in price today. Will you then suggest that banana didn't surge in price because it only makes up 1% of the overall stock market?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Given the sheer amount of Steam users, it's still not a bad increase.

[–] agame@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sergei?

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[–] porksoda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's not the percentage total but the speed of increase.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Small number random samples in big data sets have huge error margins. You need to smooth this over time to see the real trend.

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[+] SamXavia@kbin.run 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Add the article says, the surge is entirely thanks to the Deck. There was a 35% surge in overall use but 43% of that use is the Deck so PC/laptop use has actually dropped.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'd say some of that drop was punters like me who were already gaming on Linux and have just moved over to the deck now.

I have a dock for mine and it's really the only thing I use for gaming now as my laptop is very old.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It’s been pretty good. So long as you stick to verified and playable games your experience is going to be pretty solid.

[–] niisyth@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

That and Emudeck.

The most seamless retro gaming setup I've used yet.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

TBH I've yet to come across any game I haven't been able to play (aside from the obvious VR/occasional anti-cheat), most unsupported games just haven't been tested for most cases

Edit: out of curiosity I actually went through my library to see just how many unsupported games I could download and try (again, not the VR ones lol).

I ended up getting caught up playing Revita all day and it says unsupported but it definitely works! For anyone else interested in that game, it is having some development quirks but there's a public beta branch of it that seems to be the "definitive" version of the game.

Uploaded a control scheme template for the beta since there wasn't one I liked :D

Then I tried an old DOS game Litil Divil which also worked just fine. I'd have tried some others but like I said, addicting game be addicting

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Same, I’m not a big multiplayer person so most of the time it works out. My latest has been Lethal Company, my first new multiplayer game this year 😂. Been a blast.

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[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

id like to think this is because I alone decided to install opensuse (its been an awful experience)

[–] 0x4E4F 4 points 2 years ago

Feel the pain 😂.

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[–] static@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago

I just removed Windows from my desktop and went straight Linux after seeing how well things ran on my Deck.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linux Mint 0.08% Yay!

[–] balancedchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's an excellent distro. My first, after a poor Ubuntu experience years prior. I'll always have good things to say.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LMDE is Mint without the Ubuntu. Don't mind me, just spreading the good word.

[–] balancedchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, LMDE is definitely the future of Mint. Good point.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

bill’s days are numbered

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I mean, he's not exactly a spring chicken anymore.

[–] barbecue_sprinkler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

My guess is that most gaming Linux users have a dual boot setup and play games on Windows.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

If not for games like Destiny, I wouldn’t even need that. Literally everything else I play runs great on Linux now

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I used to keep a windows drive to run steam. But it honestly sees very little use nowadays.

Mostly I boot it every few months to see what shenanigans Microsoft has pulled with windows. Other than that, it's just sitting there. Everything I play runs in Linux.

I run Tumbleweed btw.

[–] Quereller@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not anymore. I don't even bother to check steamdb, games run anyhow flawlessly under Proton experimental.

(OK, maybe check if the game runs well before buying it)

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