Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine”

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 08:34:23 -0000 (UTC)

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On Sun, 2 Aug 2026 03:04:39 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

> The app and game updates probably occur in the background, but that
> doesn't obviate they happen.

On Windows, you have this problem that files that are currently open
in some running process are “locked”, and cannot be updated without
quitting the offending process, and restarting it afterwards. And if
that “process” happens to be buried deep inside the kernel, then a
system restart becomes mandatory.

On Linux, this happens a bit more seamlessly.