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?
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.
Agreed. I would take that also but currently it does not.
PCs can’t do that. Only RAM gets power in their sleep mode.
Right, so, back to my original point…
The Steam Deck is a PC. That’s why this solution is impossible for it. It’s a hardware limitation.
I understand that. My original point was that they should update when shutting the device down.