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Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Random users are asked each month. If you get chosen you'll get a popup in the Steam client asking if you'd like to participate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Weird that it'd be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That might bias the results towards gaming cafes and people building test machines. Cases where an account is used but a single snapshot doesn't necessarily reflect what they normally use or that would capture the same machine multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yep! And it's per account. Both of my Linux machines are in this months data!