The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2026 is out - so here's our usual look over the statistics provided by users who opt-in to it.
  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    34·
    19 days ago

    Its over. I’m going into hibernation until the next steam survey says we’re back

        • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
          4·
          18 days ago

          Again - it’s 10% of the total Linux amount. It’s a lot.

          The article isn’t saying Linux is dying, neither am I. Who is?

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        11·
        16 days ago

        In sampling and statistics, I’m pretty sure there are terms for that. To account for the fact that not 100% of the population are being sampled. Hmmm, I wonder what that term is.

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
    15·
    18 days ago

    These small variations tend to happen because the data is not perfect. The important thing is to see how it trends over time. When we clean up the data to reduce the noise of the ups and downs, we see that it’s trending up.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    8·
    19 days ago

    With the amount of Tumbleweed submissions on protondb I would have thought BSD would make the list by now

  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
    81·
    19 days ago

    Bawwww, I was happy to be able to do my part for the steam linux charts for the first time, but it was not the month of the Linux desktop I guess

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    6·
    18 days ago

    Do these surveys happen on a monthly basis? I’m not doing these on a monthly basis. So my data is not here. Could I participate automatically somehow, just by launching the Steam client?

    • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      I think steam randomly selects users each moth to contribute. You’ll get a pop up asking you to share.

      Its been awhile since I took stats, but we should expect some fluctuations. Whether it’s statistically significant or not depends on the confidence intervals.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        17 days ago

        If I’m not mistaken, I can initiate the survey manually. I guess it’s not too much work. It collects all the information automatically anyway. Nothing to “fill out”. 👍