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of course this month steam catches me for the survey on my $100 microcenter special that i lovingly call "the craptop." but i still hit submit.
Got it today. It seemed wildly confused about storage (2T drive for Linux, 1T for ~~Dedicated Genshin Console~~ Win10) but there will be at leadt one Void user polluting the data.
With your help, we will get to 2% and kick off the year of the linux desktop!
After twenty years on Steam, I've been asked three times to participate in the survey on my gaming setup, and on three occasions I played on Windows. No survey in the last five years while using Linux. :)
I've got it twice on my work laptop, where I used it just for the messenger, back when I ran an active community for a game.
Not sure if I want to trust that data.
You can submit it yourself. Help > Hardware
I'll singlehandedly save linux gaming by doing this every month. But I'd have to throw AMD under the bus since I still have green... Life's hard choices.
edit: There is no "Hardware" option and "System Information" doesn't have a button to send it in :(
It might be bugged now. I was able to do it a few months ago. Maybe I did happen to do it at the time of the hardware survey? 🤔
hehe exiting steam and running
sed -i -e '/SurveyDate/ s/"[0-9].*"/"'$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "1 year ago")'"/' ~/.local/share/Steam/config/config.vdf
then starting it back up did work to get the survey popup (found it in this r*ddit thread)
This is definitely a shady thing to do though hehe
Can't decide what market to develop games for if you don't know what people are using. Even craptops
Generally I'd ignore anyone running computers this garbage because they're not going to have the money to buy games anyway. It's like trying to make a BMW for the homeless market.
How do you know that the money I saved on hardware isn't going straight to games that I can stream to it from my desktop over steam link?
I don't. Just like I don't know that the homeless aren't sitting on BMW money. I'm betting it's such a small percentage it's not worth targeting.
If you are streaming from a desktop, surely your desktop is the one that should be targeted, and it'll show up in the stats as well.
i never do the surveys. why would i want some proprietary software to survey my hardware??
Because if the company (Valve) knows there are many Linux users using their software, it will use it's resources to help Linux. They make Proton, which is FOSS, and contribute a lot to Wine and Linux in general.