It's been awhile since I've noticed this honestly, probably around the time they refactored the library & different views for your games but I realized that those annoying self-updating client packages that would restart steam seem to be a thing of the past. I was looking through my download history and the thought occurred to me that Steam hasnt forced a restart on me in so long.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, it would be a popup like this that would come up 5-10 minutes after steam was running.

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[–] Tash 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've seen the same thing. Seems like the new behavior is to just let me login, play, and it will get what it needs in the background and automatically update on next launch.

Makes sense not to bother me to update a 0.1 release change after launch (unless it's urgent) when I just want to play Tetris.

Isn't this the same behavior web browsers use? Background download and update on next launch?

Not complaining, I prefer this update cycle as default.

[–] thermal_shock 1 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, it updates at every launch basically, like Spotify app

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like this is probably due to the steamdeck and so much steamos functionality requiring steam to be running.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I still see it semi-frequently, but more because I don't use my computer as much and it's usually off. So after a week of non-use, Steam has often accumulated enough updates to necessitate a reboot.

It is still not nearly as frequent as new Nvidia drivers needing a reboot, though.

[–] Sanctus 6 points 3 weeks ago

I forgot that existed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think I've seen that update window in years.