mudle,
@mudle@lemmy.ml avatar

You live close to a microcenter?? Luckyyyyyy

sugar_in_your_tea,

Ikr? My options are Best Buy (not really an option) and online stores. I used to have a Fry’s, then I moved and they went under.

swab148,
@swab148@startrek.website avatar

So it was your fault!

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

I actually live close to two microcenters! And I could walk to a best buy, but I never do. I sure miss frys, but I’m glad microcenter is still around.

psmgx,

Can’t decide what market to develop games for if you don’t know what people are using. Even craptops

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

Generally I’d ignore anyone running computers this garbage because they’re not going to have the money to buy games anyway. It’s like trying to make a BMW for the homeless market.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

How do you know that the money I saved on hardware isn’t going straight to games that I can stream to it from my desktop over steam link?

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t. Just like I don’t know that the homeless aren’t sitting on BMW money. I’m betting it’s such a small percentage it’s not worth targeting.

sugar_in_your_tea,

If you are streaming from a desktop, surely your desktop is the one that should be targeted, and it’ll show up in the stats as well.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

One would hope! But sadly they caught me with my pants down this time.

only0218,

Me when I make a Windows or Linux VM, First thing that steam does is ask for survey…

Lemongrab,

Do you game in VM?

only0218,

I did for a short amount of time. sadly the gpu didn’t quite get used and my cpu usage was insanely high.

Dehydrated,

Did you set up GPU passthrough?

only0218,

Yes, issues I had are in previous reply

daFRAKKINpope,

I do. My gaming PC is also my most capable server.

ambrosiaforest,

i never do the surveys. why would i want some proprietary software to survey my hardware??

null,

Weird threshold. You’re already using that proprietary software on your computer. What’s to stop them from gathering that data regardless?

stepanzak,

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.

unwarlikeExtortion,

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.

Tiuku, (edited )

Think of it as a Linux vs. Window$ election

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

And elections have consequences

MonkderZweite,

Steam doesn’t see my hardware in bubblejail, so i had to refuse.

HakFoo,

Got it today. It seemed wildly confused about storage (2T drive for Linux, 1T for Dedicated Genshin Console Win10) but there will be at leadt one Void user polluting the data.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

With your help, we will get to 2% and kick off the year of the linux desktop!

Da_Boom, (edited )

You should be able to play genshin on Linux - the workaround launcher still exists and arweanticheat says they unintentionally fixed it - I can’t confirm this though

sleepyTonia,
@sleepyTonia@programming.dev avatar

I recently just straight up installed and ran Genshin Impact without any workaround. Just kept it isolated using Bottle. And it ran near flawlessly from what I could tell.

calmb,

I learned a lot from your blog, and you can learn more about older video games to have more engaging experiences. I look forward to playing with you in the past! word wipe aarp

jrgd,

I’m glad I am not the only one who calls my little ASUS netbook craptop. Kinda flimsy and definitely underpowered, but a perfect little device to run basic applications and terminal applications on a minimal window manager.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

And here i am thinking I’m original…

But you’re absolutely right. It’s perfect for basic browsing, signal or to ssh into my vps. It’s not at all suited for gaming, but maybe MS flight simulator will add support for dual core celerons next month because of me!

Hamartiogonic,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Three are lots of old games and new indie games that should be fine as long as you’re not trying to run them on a pi zero. Low specs don’t mean you can’t play any games at all.

NotJustForMe,

After twenty years on Steam, I’ve been asked three times to participate in the survey on my gaming setup, and on three occasions I played on Windows. No survey in the last five years while using Linux. :)

I’ve got it twice on my work laptop, where I used it just for the messenger, back when I ran an active community for a game.

Not sure if I want to trust that data.

Darorad,

Really, It feels like I get it every 4 or 5 months

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Same. I got it for the first time on my Steam Deck a couple months ago, and have gotten it like 4-5 times on my Linux desktop over the last 2-3 years and 1-2 times on my work laptop (MacBook).

The one time I got it on Windows I refused, because I never play games on Windows and just booted Steam to check something.

onlinepersona,

You can submit it yourself. Help > Hardware

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person, (edited )

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  • onlinepersona,

    It might be bugged now. I was able to do it a few months ago. Maybe I did happen to do it at the time of the hardware survey? 🤔

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    pineapplelover,

    I got a notification each year and I’m on Linux

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