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

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine”
Date 2026-08-02 08:34 +0000
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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.

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ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 06:17 +0000
  Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-08-02 02:26 -0500
    Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 07:38 +0000
      Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-08-02 03:04 -0500
        Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 08:34 +0000
      Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-02 11:39 -0400
        Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 23:00 +0000
          Re: ZDNet: “What We Really Think Of The Steam Machine” John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-08-03 10:10 -0700

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