It’s unique to the primary non-desktop mode of the steamdeck. If you put it to sleep, it pauses downloads. Out of the box, it pauses downloads when you play ga

It’s unique to the primary non-desktop mode of the steamdeck. If you put it to sleep, it pauses downloads. Out of the box, it pauses downloads when you play games unless you enable a checkbox that says it will degrade performance. If you switch to the desktop mode instead, you can download things as you would on a Linux desktop with all the other requisite performance state management caveats, and it’s very much now how the device is designed to be used.