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Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam (arstechnica.com)
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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Faster at what?

While developing the "slow" Steam store, Valve contributed to the make Linux a viable gaming platform. What were you cunts doing while this was happening? Shouting from the sidelines that Linux gaming was never going to work due to fragmentation and minimal use base.

Wankers.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 91 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yes, we're all very desperate to leave the Steam ecosystem, we're just waiting for ... checks notes ... a slightly faster launcher.

Yes, that's it: a slightly faster launcher.

[-] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago

Exemplary example of how tech bros think

[-] NoLemurs@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The hilarious part is, yes, I don't care how fast my launcher is.

But... also, Steam is by far the slowest, least responsive program on my computer.

"Faster than Steam" feels like a joke.

I don't use a lot of non-open source applications (and not a lot of desktop applications generally). Have they gotten so bad that the slowness of Steam doesn't feel bad to people anymore?

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

tbh it was a legitimate issue with the epic launcher the last time i used it: everything loaded for three seconds each time since it was some sort of prohibitively bloated framework web app

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah it legit took more than a minute to launch the fucking barebone app, that's the reason most people haven't been using the store. It's definitely because the launch speed is so so slow that people not using it, good on them to make it usable, now maybe fix the other thing.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 36 points 10 hours ago

The best part is Steam released an update just one day later that loads faster than the Slopic Launcher.

[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've heard news that Steam released the update before Epic announced the new launcher

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

On my old pc it take about 30 second from PC finished booting to launching Steam in Big Picture, not sure what happened because on my new PC it just launched within second.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 hours ago

Nope.

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 7 points 9 hours ago

I love steam but I have to admit it's rather slow both on Windows and Linux.

Isn't steam kind of web based and so always a bit slow because of that ?

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I guess I can't really relate. Games usually launch within 3-5 seconds for me. Sometimes it can take longer when it has to do whatever it does with vulkan shaders, but that's usually only first time launches or after some updates.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Wish it was faster sure.

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 hours ago

Steam is significantly slower to open that Heroic or Lutris.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Sometimes big picture but I only use it for like 10 seconds then launch my game.

[-] esc@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

I do, but there is an issue with lauchers in general. Not just steam.

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 5 points 8 hours ago

Probably because it has so few features.

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

But the new “Preview” app “will have some bugs,” Epic warns.

[-] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm glad I didn't pay for any of the games on it, makes it really easy to just uninstall and never go back ☺️

[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Like the launcher or not, this will lead to more in roads for games made in Unreal to be able to have native Linux builds

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