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

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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.

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        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.