aren’t these numbers generally wonky to begin with? like wasn’t it determined that the increase a couple months back was due to the Chinese New Year where people in China got like a week off work and school and thus spent time in internet cafes which run linux and therefore saw a massive increase?
a drop of less than 1 percent probably isn’t a big deal.
No, it was the other way around. Because of the massive influx of Chinese users, the Linux share dropped from ~3% to ~2%, because they basically all use Windows over there (for gaming). Then after the Chinese users were removed or accounted for (or whatever Valve does), Linux jumped to the record 5.3% last month.
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aren’t these numbers generally wonky to begin with? like wasn’t it determined that the increase a couple months back was due to the Chinese New Year where people in China got like a week off work and school and thus spent time in internet cafes which run linux and therefore saw a massive increase?
a drop of less than 1 percent probably isn’t a big deal.
No, it was the other way around. Because of the massive influx of Chinese users, the Linux share dropped from ~3% to ~2%, because they basically all use Windows over there (for gaming). Then after the Chinese users were removed or accounted for (or whatever Valve does), Linux jumped to the record 5.3% last month.