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About the March 2026 hardware survey, what is "64 bit" and "0 64 bit"? Why do they represent 25% of the linux devices? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 months ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There's no Fedora or any derivatives, so I imagine they failed to detect it correctly - it must be either hidden in other or in these two

[–] funny_alias@europe.pub 4 points 4 months ago

I remember the last time I participated in the survey my Fedora system was summarised simply as "Linux 64bit" or something like that.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I assume that Fedora users might install Steam with Flatpak maybe?

[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

I know I do.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Bazzite specifically might have contributed quite a bit to the recent growth

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"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%

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Linux; 5.33%; +3.10%

The number of linux users more than doubled. 1 in 20 gamers use linux. Impressive.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[+] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] lath@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

A lot of people are saying this correlates to Chinese New Year, but I don’t know how that correlates to video game playing.

Time off, supposedly using computer cafes, as I've heard it explained here.

[–] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

it's because the previous month took a big dip due to the sampling involving a lot of Chinese users.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Either that or there are more glitches in Valve's script

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lavOQrZbUC4

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I see Ubuntu at the top and think yay, I still have the most popular version of Linux and... Oh that table is upside down, it seems I'm at the bottom here.

I feel old :(

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

It's still top 9, anything with less share is in other.

[–] wellbudyweek@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

It's also not upside down...

[–] highball@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#engsplitanchor

Naa, it's not a bug. The Steam Hardware and Software survey is a random sampling of machines. Sometimes it's just an over sampling in some demographic. It seems to happen occasionally. I'm sure there will likely be a pull back as per usual. But, I think it will be more in the low to mid 4%. I think the network affect is finally kicking in. Always good to see YoY growth, so no complaints.