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"Update and shut down" option? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deck should be able to do that as well.

Agreed. I would take that also but currently it does not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PCs can't do that. Only RAM gets power in their sleep mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, so, back to my original point...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Steam Deck is a PC. That's why this solution is impossible for it. It's a hardware limitation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I understand that. My original point was that they should update when shutting the device down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.