As always, the error bars on steam survey stats are huge, and reporting on every little blip is nothing more than click-baiting.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Check the distro numbers, none of them are down
How are people this fucking stupid?
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In my nearly 20 years using steam, I’ve gotten hardware survey’d like two or three times (and exclusively AFTER switching from AMD to nvidia). You can’t make sweeping conclusions like that out of a single incomplete datapoint