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The current Steam Survey numbers seem...off.

Reads like Pop!_OS and Linux Mint weren't being counted before.

It also shows a total increase for Linux over last month, despite the overall percentage being lower. Whut.

Steam Survey results for Linux - December 2020, showing Pop!_OS and Linux Mint gaining their entire share in one month...sus
Steam Survey results for Linux - December 2022, showing Pop!_OS and Linux Mint gaining their entire share in one month...sus
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Kevin Karhan
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Mivey
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This is based on random samples, so you must expect an inherent error and instability to the numbers. Using a single data point (one month) is not a good idea.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ
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@mivey uh no, it's generally fine, it's not instability, this month just doesn't make any sense
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Mivey
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Oh, right, the sums over the percentages seem off. Perhaps Valve updated the underlying math somehow? It be strange for an algorithm to make "mistakes" when adding up numbers
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Ondล™ej Mรญchal
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Steam could adjust the data collection for Flatpaks. The host system info is available under `/run/host/os-release`.
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kaosine
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I feel like I've seen this kind of error a lot with OS stats that I'm not sure how we trust any of it tbh. I'm just hoping eventually it all gets ironed out. Wish they didn't put flatpak as a distro tho... That just seems so.... Odd. Would think flatpak would pass in the actual distro but that's just me....
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regeya
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I wondered if they counted Flatpak separately. I was using that on Arch, then when I switched to Fedora recently, I kept using the Flatpak. Hard to beat the convenience when using proprietary software.
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Josh Mann
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This encouraged me to spend the time to upgrade from Mint 20.3 to Mint 21 so i could be in the list next month. Cheers.

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