Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who’ve opted in as a sample. It’s anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn’t an absolute.

Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?

Do I?

Is it because it’s opt in or opt out?

  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    The steam machine is also guaranteed to have official driver support for everything on the board which is definitely not the case if you install steamos on any given gaming pc

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      3 hours ago

      What drivers? I didn’t know steam made specific drivers for the steam machine? They only have it preconfigured?

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        14 hours ago

        I mean, true, and I am a Linux user. But my buddy managed to brick bazzite 3 times and has returned to windows, defeated.

        I honestly don’t understand how, but here we are.