Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review

Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review by zamadatix on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:23AM (#27561266)

I think the advantage of apt and similar tools is their database is the source of truth for the system not the other way around. E.g. when Steam or even a general program installer run they are responsible for checking the current machine for anything that might conflict or a missing dependency and fixing that once detected then actually running the game or app. In apt it checks the lovingly crafted app database and if that's wrong or you've done something manual it's not set up to detect it'll simply break. When 99% of what you ever need is in this automatic database of free, basically first party, stuff it works wonders.

The only difference between Windows 10 and say Ubuntu with auto updates is Windows 10 will prevent you from picking an infinite time out for updates that require a reboot. If you want to manually update it's the same, go to the update app and check for updates. If there are updates hit install. Upon install the update app will have a restart to install button and the restart/shutdown buttons in the Start menu also have install and restart/shutdown options.

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Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review by jasonjayr on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:39PM (#27563129)

Windows Update is pretty brutal in general.

While Windows 7 was still current, there was an update that refused to install, and reported a cryptic error code in the UI.

After digging into dense log files and online support I came to discover it was refusing to install because of an Incompatible version of the super-old Novell Netware client, that lived in C:\Old_Computer\hard-drive\installers\novell_installer-${someversion}.exe

Windows was scanning the entire hard drive @ install time to look for any software on it's list of incompatible software.

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Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review by paholg on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:44AM (#27561474)

Steam, on Linux at least, comes with its own versions of libraries for games.

So it gets to act much like apt.

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Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:21PM (#27564088)

Steam games and 95% of programs don't really have dependencies other than stuff like visual C++ runtimes, and steam takes care of running those installers. And those won't cause conflicts either. There's no good reason it can't work the same wonders.

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Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review by yrro on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:05AM (#27568354)

> steam takes care of running those installers

In my experience it does this again, and again, and again... every single time I launch some games!

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