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[–] moebius@feddit.de 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened in squint eyes March 23?

[–] moebius@feddit.de 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After looking at the other graphs, it coincides with a spike for simplified Chinese, which means for some reason a lot of people in presumably china were way more active on that month.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago

Valve screws up the survey surprisingly often. As you said, usually PC cafes (which are very popular in Asia) skew the data when that happens.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Steam Deck was a huge W for Linux gaming.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/2701/

This isn't a linear trend. Probably a slightly geomtric trend. Source: I turned my phone sideways to analyze the line.

[–] ensignrick@startrek.website 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in this graph and I like it.

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will be in this graph very soon, just need to load the drive into the case and hook it up 🥳 (Soon to be) bye Bill Bing(Gates)!

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[–] Decker108@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are... are we the ~~baddies~~ one percent?

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The smart 1%

[–] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found more interesting is already bigger that mac os

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[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Stars moved

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

It's a percentage so likely one of the other groups expanded. Guessing the dip is due to more MacOS users.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Statistical noise. The survey isn't accurate enough to overanalyze every data point; that's what the trend line is there for.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Steam deck go brrr

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