Major changes in the Steam survey: A new top GPU and language, Windows 11 crashes spectacularly

[brucek]

The Windows 11 share dropping from ~30% to ~20% is hard to take seriously. Not because I have nice things to say about Windows 11, but just because the process of making that change is complex and inconvenient enough that I see no realistic chance that 1 out of 3 Windows 11 computer owners could all do so in the same month. Remember a good chunk of those computers would have been pre-builts sold to non-enthusiast users who have never replaced an operating system.

Clearly a big sampling / reporting problem.

 

[Avro Arrow]

The first thing a respected survey researcher does is release their survey and sampling methodology. All these questions would be resolved if Steam release their survey and sampling methodology. Since they don't, we can assume it's suspect.

Absolutely. Truth be told, years ago, I used to think that it was accurate. However, when I can't get the thing to work and essentially impossible numbers like what we've seen are shown, there's definitely something up.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Jokes on you, bugs are never worked out.

You got that right, but at least some of them aren't as much of a problem anymore.

 

[Raytrace3D]

Steering clear of Windows 11 until Microsoft finally figures out that listening to customer feedback rather their shareholder feedback is good for business.

 

[ddferrari]

Jokes on you, bugs are never worked out.

There is no joke in Avro Arrow's post. Anyone with experience knows that operating system bugs are fewer over time through updates, patches and user feedback.

 

[texasrattler]

There is no joke in Avro Arrow's post. Anyone with experience knows that operating system bugs are fewer over time through updates, patches and user feedback.

It was a joke.

 

[texasrattler]

You got that right, but at least some of them aren't as much of a problem anymore.

It was just a joke. I'm well aware of how most things mature or get better over time.

I personally haven't had any real issues with Windows. I'm on 11 now. Works fine for everyday stuff n gaming. I don't see or get issues that others talk about. I also don't use a ton of software either so there's that.

 

[hwertz]

Yeah, I got a request to submit to the survey x 2 last month (once on my notebook, and once on my desktop.)

An overlooked reason for Windows 11 decrease? What about the "System requirements not met" watermark? If I insisted on using Windows instead of the trouble-free gaming of Linux; I would have put Windows 11 on systems with workaround. And then either ditched Windows or gone back to Windows 10 when I had a "watermark of shame" show up.

 

[Hodor]

After using windows 11 now for a couple months I never want to go back. I'm really considering typing up a guide on settings cause I swear once you go back and tweak a few things probably take 15 minutes it's like why didn't I do this sooner. Change isn't all bad.

Agree. It wouldn't inhabit my computer if it wasn't preinstalled. I thought Windows 10 multiple personality disorder was bad (attempting to be PC and tablet OS at the same time) but Windows 11 is approximately like Windows 10 that stopped taking its medications.

 

[Agret]

Imagine how much more useful this would be if it was either A) opt out, and reported everyone every month, or B) was opt in, reported every month, and displayed the % of people that opted in.

As it is, its useless.

The way the Steam hardware survey works is this;
When you opt into the survey anonymous data about your machine is reported by the Steam client.

Every month they select a random 10,000 machines from this data and use that subset to generate the hardware report.

 

[Avro Arrow]

It was just a joke. I'm well aware of how most things mature or get better over time.

I personally haven't had any real issues with Windows. I'm on 11 now. Works fine for everyday stuff n gaming. I don't see or get issues that others talk about. I also don't use a ton of software either so there's that.

I know that you were joking, that's why I gave it a like. It's cool.