How does the patch actually get delivered? Via windows update or using something else?

Welcome, I left after the third party clients got nuked, sick of ads

Is this true for 2042? Honestly would use a Linux distro otherwise (probably Ubuntu but might look for an alternative)

Hopefully those games go to steam deck as that seems like a way to have a market share they might then cater for (I can’t play BF on Linux due to the antichear requirements)