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[–] Dlolor@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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.