It's not entirely clear what Valve uses to sort the Linux list, as distributions seem to randomly flick in and out of it each month.

Checking back for the past few months: it appears to be sorting distros by percentage, from most to least, then showing the top 13 or 14. If it just shows the top N results every month, then the natural variation in sampling would cause distros to jump in and out of the list depending on how well sampled they got each month.

For instance, Debian 12 (Bookworm) is 2.27% in April, 1.98% in June, 1.96% in July, then drops off the survey until this month where it reappears as Debian 13 (Trixie) at 1.58%. Obviously there's some noise in those numbers, but Trixie was released November 15 last year to stable in August [thanks for the correction below] so I suspect this reflects an underlying trend of people slowly upgrading their systems over the intervening year past several months*, causing the share of Bookworm to drop low enough for Debian to disappear from the list for a few months until Trixie had accumulated enough users for it to show up again. But it could also drop again next month if some other distro with a similar number of actual users gets better represented in the random sampling, who knows. That's my guess, anyway.

*I sat on the upgrade from 11 to 12 for almost a year because it came out right before I moved internationally, then my computer was in transit for 5 months (COVID…), then I just didn't have the brainspace for it for a while, so I get it.

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Quoting: Tethys84You'd think that gamer friends of a gamer would know about all these games too.

Not necessarily. Everyone has different tastes, and there are far too many games coming out every day to keep track of all of them, let alone play them. There are tons of games I've played that my friends haven't, and vice versa.

Now, is this the best way to tell your friends about games you like? Eh… :neutral: Conversation is how I prefer to do it.

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Nice! It always felt awkward leaving my Deck screen on while it was sitting around just downloading stuff.

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Quoting: WorMzyI submitted Factorio for Labor of Love. That is all.

RimWorld (coincidentally also crowdfunded in 2013). Though it was a hard choice between that and Stellaris. My two favorite war crime simulators. :grin:

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It reminds me a bit of One Finger Death Punch (1 & 2). That plus the TBW ability to try out alternate futures and experiment is an interesting combination. I see it has a demo, I'll give it a shot.

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Hey! Glyptodonts [External Link] spotted in the trailer! One of my favorite (sadly extinct) mammals.

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Reminds me of Roundabout [External Link], except co-op.

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What's the codename for the 4.0 runtime? Medic? Engineer?

Doesn't seem to be one listed.

An invisible codename, you say? That sounds kinda sneaky to me. :whistle:

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Ah, thanks!

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"XR"? :huh: Extra reality? Extended reality? Extreme reality?

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