There are two new entries for most popular operating systems listed for Linux Only. This coinsides with the 5% breakthrough of total Steam population (finally). But I wonder if this is an error (or April Fool's Day joke?). The two entries are just named 64 bit and 0 64 bit and its puzzling, as they have a huge percentage.
Does anyone have a clue what this is or could be?
But what is it referring to? I mean even if you were right about 32-bit, what is it?
Windows NT 3.1 was one of the first 32bit OS's.
It's the memory address space for the hardware - 32bit can work with 2^32 memory addresses (bytes) while 64bit can work with 2^64 memory addresses. In terms of what that means for your gaming PC, it basically means a 32bit app can work with up to ~4GB of RAM (2^32 = 4,294,967,296) and 64bit can work with up to 18EB (2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616).
What it means for the survey? No idea, but if I had to guess - it's either emulation of a 32bit OS or app (like a VM or something).. or a large group of people desperately need to upgrade from Win NT lol