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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T13:45:24.000Z",
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    "Steam",
    "Sxan",
    "12 comments"
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  "textContent": "submitted by Sxan to steam\n16 points | 12 comments\n\nI’m not really a gamer, so I’m just curious. I bought Borderlands 4 a few days ago and have been playing it on my Linux desktop every day since then, and every day I run it, it downloads another 2GB patch. Every. Day. I have to make sure I don’t start it when anyone else wants to use the WAN, and I have to start it a half-hour before I want to play, and I’m just curious if this is normal? Is it Linux? Is it Borderlands? Is it Steam? I’ve read that you can’t fully disable these updates under Steam, but you can if you buy through Gog; perhaps I made the wrong choice of platform.\n\nI’m just a bit baffled at the idea that Borderlands is releasing a new 2GB patch (and it’s never less than 2GB) every 8 hours, or that every patch is necessary. I also know that Borderlands 3 did not have updates this frequently on the PS3. But I accept that, perhaps, I have something set up wrong. As I said, I’m not really a gamer.\n\nIs this par for the course, now?",
  "title": "Linux, and Borderlands, and downloads... oh my!"
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