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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.
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.
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.
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.