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Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage? (lemmy.world)
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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

A little bit off-topic, but I don't know if I'm too dumb to understand the survey results' presentation or if there is something wrong.

  1. Why is SteamOS Holo excluded in the Linux list when the table is unfiltered, while in the "Linux only" filtered table it seems to be the most popular OS with 23.83%?
  2. For the Arch-based distros, e.g. Steam OS Holo (+23.83%) or Arch Linux (+9.07%), the "change" is exactly the value of the current "percentage", so the percentage of the compared value is 0. So I guess they have new entries in the data without the history of the old entries? Is there any explanation for that?

Am I missing something? And does it even say anywhere how many people were asked and participated in the survey?