Do you need to leave the Steam Deck open to download something on i.e. Firefox in desktop mode or will it just download perfectly in standby mode? I know that it’s basically a PC and it should work but since I’m planning to get one I want to be sure.

  • nekuOP
    4·
    9 months ago

    I meant “on lockscreen” mode…sry

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      51·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, that shouldn’t be a problem. I don’t bother with a lockscreen because the device is unencrypted and it never leaves the house anyways. But if you were to set one up in desktop mode all the programs would continue running normally in the background.

      • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz
        41·
        9 months ago

        A lockscreen does prevent a thief from using your Steam account… unless you can boot to desktop mode before typing in the password, haven’t checked that.

    • Lupec@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m not 100% sure about lock screen behavior since I don’t have one set myself but I know it doesn’t go to sleep as long as you keep it in the downloads page and it still has pending downloads, so I’d guess the same applies there.