• Dlolor@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      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.

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

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          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.

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      I think Steam automatically uploads your hardware and software spec