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

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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] wifienyabledcat@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] wifienyabledcat@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

huh I guess I'm remembering wrong

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months 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.

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