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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
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commander lemmy.world commander@lemmy.world
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Vicinus piefed.zip Vicinus@piefed.zip
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Not sure if I'm doing the math right, but Linux % for English Language users is 11.28%!

Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * Linux Overall = (82.75% / 39.09%) * 5.33% = 11.28%

Edit: Changed "?" to "!" after GamingOnLinux, via Tywèle@piefed.social, confirmed my math.

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Tywèle piefed.social Tywele@piefed.social
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Not sure if I'm doing the math right, but Linux % for English Language users is 11.28%! Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * Linux Overall = (82.75% / 39.09%) * 5.33% = 11.28% Edit: Changed "?" to "!" after GamingOnLinux, via Tywèle@piefed.social, confirmed my math.

No need to do the math, GamingOnLinux does it for you: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

But it seems like your math is right.

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GottaHaveFaith fedia.io GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
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Not sure if I'm doing the math right, but Linux % for English Language users is 11.28%! Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * Linux Overall = (82.75% / 39.09%) * 5.33% = 11.28% Edit: Changed "?" to "!" after GamingOnLinux, via Tywèle@piefed.social, confirmed my math.

you have to use 0.8275 * 0.0533 * 100 = 4,41% I think.
You cannot multiply/divide percents like that, if you think 50% of 50%, half of a half of 100 is 25

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Vicinus piefed.zip Vicinus@piefed.zip
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No need to do the math, GamingOnLinux does it for you: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ But it seems like your math is right.

Appreciate the confirmation. I actually checked GamingOnLinux before doing the math, but they hadn't updated their graphs yet for March.

Since I did the math correct the first time, I'm going to double down and math again!

Non-Steam Deck Linux % for English Language: 8.63%

Math: (Linux English / Overall English) * ((Linux Overall - SteamOS Linux % of Overall) / (Overall - SteamOS Linux % of Overall) = (82.75% / 39.09%) * ((5.33% - 1.30%) / (100% - 1.30%)) = 8.63%

SteamOS Linux % of Overall = Linux Overall * SteamOS Linux = 5.33% * 24.48% = 1.30%

Assumptions: % of English Language usage is uniform across all Distros; Probably another assumption, but it's not coming to me right now.

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