Its over. I'm going into hibernation until the next steam survey says we're back
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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.
Too many LinusTechTips watchers got sad when Fortnite wouldn't run.
Steam result vary more than 0.3% just by user select variance. Very unstable.
0.3% over multiple month maybe around 10% of linux, but not for one month.
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.
With the amount of Tumbleweed submissions on protondb I would have thought BSD would make the list by now
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?
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.
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
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