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I just want updates to happen in a separate 'thread'. Not (necessarily) in the literal sense, in the sense of my human attention. Update in the background, don't interfere with my use of the application itself — at most, give me an icon that tells me the application will be a newer version the next time I restart it, a bit like how Google Chrome manages its updates.

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I generally agree. And Chromes method is definitely better than Steam's where you have to wait 30 seconds on boot every few days for it to load.

But that introduces issues where if Google adds some shitty new feature to Chrome I sorta get forced into it instead of having an opportunity to choose, so there's definitely a tradeoff and also a responsibility on the part of the vendor to make sure they aren't abusing their ability to install things on my computer.

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