Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date):

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  $ dpkg -l | grep steam
  ii  steam-launcher                             1.0.0.54                                     all          Launcher for the Steam software distribution service
  

• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu):

  $ head -n1 /etc/issue
  Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
  
  $ uname -rms
  Linux 4.4.0-130-generic x86_64
  

• Opted into Steam client beta?: No

• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes, all system packages are up to date via apt-get.

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I have been gaming on Linux for a couple years now with Steam. Unfortunately, I've not ever been able to submit a hardware survey. I have a client on my Mac that I open maybe once a year, however, nearly every time I open the Mac client I get prompted for a steam hardware survey.

Why doesn't Steam ever ask me for a hardware survey on Linux? I want to set Linux as the only platform in which I get the hardware survey. We should be able to submit a "primary client" setting in which the survey only appears.

Linux estimates could be misrepresented if this is a prevalent problem with other Linux users.

Feature request

It would be great if Steam offered an option to choose a primary platform in which to submit hardware surveys.