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Gavin

@firecat @eddiecsilva This thankfully has nothing to do with Space Karen. This is about Valve surveying users and making the information available to everyone. Nothing more.

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DELETED

@gavin57 @eddiecsilva it’s not available for everyone, you can not access the website, you can not request it, the data is exclusive to Valve. You don’t own the data, you can’t track down the data. There is only Valve has the main source.

Gavin

@firecat @eddiecsilva I'm literally accessing the website.

The thing is, Valve is not obliged to provide anything. They're not a government organization whose sole purpose is to collect and present statistical data as part of its civic remit...they're a game developer and software distribution platform that offers this data to interested users.

Screenshot of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey - July 2023
Gavin

@firecat @eddiecsilva What is really interesting is that 42% of Steam users on Linux are using SteamOS Holo. Arch and Ubuntu are the 2nd & 3rd largest with 7%.

DELETED

@gavin57 @eddiecsilva Just believing that alone is no different than Elon Musk fake followers. They control the website, they control the data, they control who sents it. I often see pot of people not getting the survey. The data is just isn't trustable enough.

Gavin

@firecat @eddiecsilva …but the data is inconsequential. Right now we’re talking about what machines & software is used to play games on. It really doesn’t matter.

If Valve was in charge of civic planning, fine, but they’re not.

Musk is also irrelevant. A two-bit car dealer who runs a toxic website that is dropping in value by the day.

DELETED

@gavin57 @eddiecsilva it makes people believe Valve is successful in Linux. Also, over at knob I just realized that Valve never mentioned what “Linux” means in their chart. It can be anything from VM, bot accounts, false proxy, etc. The data should not be considered 100% PC Linux.

Gavin replied to DELETED

@firecat @eddiecsilva You have to drill down, but the data is all there.

Valve Software's Steam hardware survey results for July - Linux distributions
DELETED replied to Gavin

@gavin57 @eddiecsilva “other”, yep see what I mean. Not always 100% PC Linux and Valve won’t share any information on it.

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