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Steam Hardware & Software Survey - Go Linux! :) (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linux surpassed MacOS in marketshare for the first ever time this month. Let's go! :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to be a downer but Valve doesn't give and insight into their methodology of collecting data and it's been wrong a few times before. With Linux, VR, and languages. Why should the statistics be trusted now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

isn't the hardware survey just a voluntary survey available to any steam user? like we know how they collect the data

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's randomly picked users which has been shown that it's not so random and that at one point Linux users weren't being asked as often as Windows users. So without methodology and insight, it's hard to have trust in the survey system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Of course they weren't asked as often, there's significantly less number of users on Linux. 96.21% of the users asked was on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I mean there was an actual bug with the system where it would ask a single Windows user more often than if they were on Linux. People who used Linux and Windows would notice they would get prompted for the hardware survey the moment they sign into steam on Windows because the system had randomly picked them but the prompt didn't appear in Linux. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2286 It was a known issue that was fixed around 2018. It's why most steam data for Linux was thrown away in 2018.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

huh I guess I'm remembering wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess so. Maybe you are getting confused with the command to show the hardware survey prompt. You can directly pop it up with a special steam URL but it won't take your data unless you've been selected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I believe they pick users at random. You can't even update your submitted data from X times ago after an upgrade.