Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey

Quoting: Naibvery nice... but :( starting to get enough points to fit to a sigmoid... if that inflection point is correct, are we looking at like 3% as the settling point
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Nice, you are at the "logistic" stage. What's next?


Last edited by Geppeto35 on 4 November 2024 at 8:29 am UTC

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

No, because of regulations. You can't just collect a bunch of info about a user's machine and send it over without consent. The survey is not just about knowing which OS people game on. The survey is targetted at game developers, and devs want to know more than just what OS the user is running; they need to know OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, controller, keyboard, language, screen size, resolution, aspect ratio, etc.

Quoting: Geppeto35Nice, you are at the "logistic" stage. What's next?

Well thats the "fun part"... keep watching... The profile can only ever be sigmoid since it will plateaux. Hopefully the noise is masking where the true inflection point is...

Quoting: Naib

Quoting: Geppeto35Nice, you are at the "logistic" stage. What's next?

Well thats the "fun part"... keep watching... The profile can only ever be sigmoid since it will plateaux.

Nonsense. I believe we can reach 150%, 200%, even 300% . . . just like the amount of effort sports people can give!

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

No, because of regulations. You can't just collect a bunch of info about a user's machine and send it over without consent. The survey is not just about knowing which OS people game on. The survey is targetted at game developers, and devs want to know more than just what OS the user is running; they need to know OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, controller, keyboard, language, screen size, resolution, aspect ratio, etc.

Erm... could you cite exact regulation that forbids that?

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

They're collecting information about their users and publishing it for any third party that wants to use it for any reason. Whether or not permission is strictly legally required for that, it's better to err on the side of getting the permission than not.

They likely also have very detailed moment-to-moment internal data about exactly who's using their network & services, but they aren't sharing that.

And this contradicts what @sarmad said. So if it's regulation they couldn't/shouldn't collect any data (GDPR and whatnot). If they do collect it then they could share statistics...

IMHO GDPR would not apply in this instance as those are not PII. What's more, anonymized stats wouldn't violate that either.

There could also be, quite popular, toggle "allow telemetry" and they could share data in the form: "those are the (detailed) stats from the people with enabled telemetry and this population is x percent of the thotal user base"