of course this month steam catches me for the survey on my $100 microcenter special that i lovingly call "the craptop." but i still hit submit.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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i never do the surveys. why would i want some proprietary software to survey my hardware??
Because if the company (Valve) knows there are many Linux users using their software, it will use it's resources to help Linux. They make Proton, which is FOSS, and contribute a lot to Wine and Linux in general.
2nd. By doing the survey on craptops or VMs, developers just might try lowering their sysreq's down a notch. Additionally, as far as proprietary software goes Valve might be the most benevolent of them all so giving them support through the opt-in survey is a huge help as it evens out the playing field with those who play dirty and just take your info regardless.
Think of it as a Linux vs. Window$ election
And elections have consequences
Weird threshold. You're already using that proprietary software on your computer. What's to stop them from gathering that data regardless?