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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 18:13:29 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/linux-user-share-hits-a-multi-year-high-on-steam-for-may-2025/

   #Linux #Steam #SteamOS #SteamDeck #PCGaming

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     S (seq@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 19:58:37 JST S

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     @gamingonlinux I don't want to be that guy, but until Steam starts tracking on a user level these statistics don't really mean anything at all though. Just over the course of a year I've personally gone from one computer running Windows to four different units running Linux. They've all been enrolled in the survey. Just as an example. I don't play on all of them though. There has also been periods where I've had a laptop running Steam maybe once during a three year period being sucked up in the survey while my desktop being used daily never getting the chance. There's way too little information about how these surveys work, which users get invited and how many of those that actually participate to draw ANY meaningful conclusions. I really wish Steam would make it more useful though.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 19:58:37 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     @seq it's a survey, sampling, you're not supposed to get it every time

     and naturally, valve will see multiple systems from the same account, they're not dumb

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 21:45:54 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     @seq i didn't say you did, jeez, i'm just saying they're not dumb, they know what they're doing

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     S (seq@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 21:45:55 JST S

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     @gamingonlinux I never said they were dumb either, I'm not really sure how you got that impression.