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Do I need to start steam at least once a month to show up in the stats?
These are the results of the monthly Steam Hardware Survey which polls just a small percentage of users. You will be notified by the Steam client if you have been chosen for a particular month and you can opt in or out at that time. My account is 20 years old and I've gotten the notification maybe half a dozen times, it doesn't happen often.
Unrelated to their question but I think Linux users would be more likely than windows users to opt out, when presented with such a prompt.
We also want Proton to become better, and the survey is anonymous and very transparent. I always participate gladly.
Same. I actually had the prompt recently when I had rebooted into my Windows disk to play a game that doesn't when on Linux (damn kernel level anti cheat), and declined the survey because I didn't want to help the Windows numbers. Only ever gonna take it on the Linux side of my PC from now on.