Post #492534

2026-03-02 12:32 UTC

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey All of the results are very odd. If you look through the other categories, Simplified Chinese gained THIRTY percent, the Hard Drive categories also wildly changed, and 32 GB RAM jumped +18%. It seems to me like a bunch of Chinese systems just flooded the statistics.

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@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-02 13:22

They also had to correct their results last month for some reason. I think they are just having issues with their surveys rn. Also there were multiple 30+ minute steam network outages in Europe in the past few days. Europe is definitely the majority of linux steam users so that might be related.

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@Prove_your_argument__dup_10886@piefed.social 2026-03-02 15:31

Whenever I point out the language of linux users being almost exclusively English I get a lot of comments about how that’s racist or something. Linux is almost all english, a bit of german, a tiny bit of russian, and an extreme minority of other languages. When you filter by english/linux you see a ton more higher end hardware than global results that include countless not-wealthy nations with household incomes under 10k/year, which is most of the world.

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