Linux user share on Steam continues the slow climb, SteamOS rises

Quoting: LamdarerBut what bugs me the most is that while SteamOS Holo has 13.69% for Linux, the AMD Custom GPU has more 13.72%. Wouldnt that mean that there is a significant portion of Deck users who installed another Linux Distro on it and even more so if you consider that the Community Holo iso which can be installed anywhere also counts toward SteamDeckOS™.

Desktop use aside, 13.69 : 13.72 = 0.9978 => 0.22 % of Steam Desk users would be installing another Linux distribution. One in 450.

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: LamdarerCould be that Arch actually dominates with other derivatives like Endevour etc on the other side there is also Linux Mint or POP!_OS which are Ubuntu Based as well.

Arch derivates have their own /etc/os-release (or whatever) and don't appear as Arch.

Exactly, even though one could argue that e.g. Endevour is closer to Arch than Ubuntu LTS to non LTS etc (not to mention Mint), and with ~40% other I would be very carefully with statements about which Linux Distro is "the most widely used"(even more so when you consider the other factors I mentioned), still it is a good indicator in general and I would love to see developers adding "Most modern Distros", "most Ubuntu 22.x. and Arch based Distros" or "ubuntu or SteamOS or Simular" to the System requirements section instead of just Ubuntu.

I was just thinking. I have my main gaming PC details on here, but I own a Steam Deck too. Would be nice to have an option to show you have both. As it is, the Steam Deck for me is a good way to show my friends what Linux gaming is capable of.. But I still prefer to game on my main rig most of the time.

Quoting: LamdarerBut what bugs me the most is that while SteamOS Holo has 13.69% for Linux, the AMD Custom GPU has more 13.72%. Wouldnt that mean that there is a significant portion of Deck users who installed another Linux Distro on it and even more so if you consider that the Community Holo iso which can be installed anywhere also counts toward SteamDeckOS™.

Another interesting thing...
Resolution 1280 x 800  12.45%
AMD Custom GPU 0405    13.72%

So ~9% of Deck Users had a monitor attached?

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: PhiladelphusI think we need to start fitting an exponential rather than a straight line.

Actually, could you have multiple fits on the plot? I don't know what the back end is like.

As someone that nagged Liam into putting the trend line on the graph, the simple least-squares line that goes through the mean is the appropriate one to use. It's just a visualisation of the data; it isn't going to show any particular function. Whether the data points squiggle around the trend line, say, or has early data below the trend line and later data above the trend line, helps to visualise what the data are showing.

My post was mostly a tongue-in-cheek way of conveying hype. Though just for fun I did my own least-square fit of a linear and an exponential function to the data, and – for this date range – the sum of the squares of the residuals was ever-so-slightly lower for the exponential, indicating that the data, on average, more closely resemble an exponential function than they do a linear one (though not by much).

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: PhiladelphusI think we need to start fitting an exponential rather than a straight line.

Actually, could you have multiple fits on the plot? I don't know what the back end is like.

As someone that nagged Liam into putting the trend line on the graph, the simple least-squares line that goes through the mean is the appropriate one to use. It's just a visualisation of the data; it isn't going to show any particular function. Whether the data points squiggle around the trend line, say, or has early data below the trend line and later data above the trend line, helps to visualise what the data are showing.

My post was mostly a tongue-in-cheek way of conveying hype. Though just for fun I did my own least-square fit of a linear and an exponential function to the data, and – for this date range – the sum of the squares of the residuals was ever-so-slightly lower for the exponential, indicating that the data, on average, more closely resemble an exponential function than they do a linear one (though not by much).

I'm a nerd. I'm not a nerd for this particular kind of stuff, but I find I appreciate it when I see nerds nerding out about stuff even when it's not my particular stuff, you know? One of life's simple pleasures.