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minus-squarewifi enyabled cat@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoisn’t the hardware survey just a voluntary survey available to any steam user? like we know how they collect the data
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI believe they pick users at random. You can’t even update your submitted data from X times ago after an upgrade.
minus-squareMJBrune@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoIt’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.
minus-squareOscar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years agoOf 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.
minus-squarewifi enyabled cat@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agohuh I guess I’m remembering wrong
isn’t the hardware survey just a voluntary survey available to any steam user? like we know how they collect the data
I believe they pick users at random. You can’t even update your submitted data from X times ago after an upgrade.
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.
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.
huh I guess I’m remembering wrong