Thanks to all of Valve's effort with Proton, Steam Deck and their funding of people working on various other bits of Linux code like GPU drivers - the Linux share on Steam as of March 2024 bounced back to a near multi-year high.
Maybe I’m wrong, and I admittedly didn’t read the article, but can’t Valve see if a person is using the Linux runtime or Windows exe without needing to request access to other information? Like it seems like a very basic thing that Valve probably collects by default because it would take effort not to.
Like when I access a website, it can instantly tell what web browser (and I believe OS, among other things) that I’m using. Unless I’ve gone in and altered my user agent. Why would using Steam be any different?
Maybe I’m wrong, and I admittedly didn’t read the article, but can’t Valve see if a person is using the Linux runtime or Windows exe without needing to request access to other information? Like it seems like a very basic thing that Valve probably collects by default because it would take effort not to.
Like when I access a website, it can instantly tell what web browser (and I believe OS, among other things) that I’m using. Unless I’ve gone in and altered my user agent. Why would using Steam be any different?