Whenever I update a package or the system via the Pop! Shop, or downloading a game or updates from Steam, my desktop constantly freezes and hangs. It works perfectly fine otherwise.

I was wondering whether this was common behaviour. It’s a bit frustrating because it means I have to pick my moments to update to be when I can go do something else for a while and come back.

If I’m on a Discord call and am doing an update or downloading a game on steam, the freezes mean that my friends can’t hear me and I can’t hear them.

I’ve tried Googling it but haven’t found anyone with this specific issue yet.

I run a medium-power gaming desktop rig.

Any advice on how to fix or improve this?

Update:

Here are my hardware specs. Sorry for not including them earlier; I was at work when I posted this.

• Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X570S GAMING X
• RAM: 32 GiB
• CPU: AMD® Ryzen 9 5900x 12-core processor × 24
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti