The absolute worst possible time for system and game updates is when I am booting up the device or starting a game.

My Fedora and Windows OSs both give you a “update and shut down” option. This is the best time to do updates.

When Steam is a desktop program, it obviously is not involved in the OS and not aware when you are shutting down but when Steam IS the OS? Seems like a fairly obvious inclusion.

Now obviously there can be additional mandatory updates between startups, but this would at least help to minimize those.

Why is this not standard? Is this something the community could develop? Maybe via plug-in?

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Totally agreed, this is one of the most annoying things left about Steam and especially the Deck.

    It’s usually not too bad since you can pause downloads. But if the game you want to play has multiple GB of patches to download you could be stuck waiting a while.

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      1 year ago

      Pause downloads, and then what? Let it sit there and download them when you’re done and then have to come back later and turn it off.

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        1 year ago

        Playstation, Xbox and Switch all download and install updates during sleep mode. Deck should be able to do that as well. If you’re worried about battery life, only allow sleeping downloads when plugged in. Problem solved.

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        1 year ago

        If you’re in desktop mode you can schedule a shutdown. But I’m not aware of a way to trigger it based on a finished Steam download queue unfortunately.