Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Here is a complete expanded screenshot with all data (1.7MiB): https://imgur.com/a/SqKUZ3l
Also I was curious why the list of Linux distros is unsorted, when switching to Linux only:
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There's a spike in Simplified Chinese this month, which implies that we're probably seeing another temporary dip
yea seems to be
English stayed at exactly 8.42% (green line)
Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
It's bonkers that English Linux marketshare is >8%
China government wants to switch to Linux. While this has no direct impact on gaming, I can see a future where China more and more bans public services to depend on Windows.
Is there any truth to the theory that numbers are skewed by internet cafes being popular in China? I'd think the easiest explanation is that people use Windows more over there, or at least people who use Steam do.
Not at all sure if it's true. But based purely on observational data, spikes in simplified Chinese tend to be short-lived and tend to occur right when windows percentage spikes temporarily. Internet cafes using Windows certainly would be a valid explanation to the observations.
To be clear, it's probably also true that people in China likely use Windows more. But that only partially explains our observations. Namely it doesn't explain why these spikes are temporary and tend to only last 1 month. More likely, these spikes are caused by a singular event (or a small handful of events) that skew the data heavily when it happens. For instance, if a large number of people all log in to Steam on a computer that they don't typically use, that could lead to the data that we see. Internet cafes would be consistent with this model, but we can imagine that other hypotheses may also produce similar results
Maybe the short time Chinas firewall manage to leak a bit of telemtry data?