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.
I’m sorry Steam, is not you. But that new launcher is so slightly faster… I can’t resist.
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
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?
I think it’s just a select few people that have issues with Steam. I’ve never once thought or felt that steam was slow. Some games start up slow, but that’s not because of Steam. Just using the program is quite responsive.
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.
They were purchasing studios and removing Linux clients from games that already had native clients
Yeah, I don’t really remember it but I know they were not helpful at all.
I’ve seen Linux gaming evolve from having nearly zero games, through the Loki ports giving us some hope, to Steam games basically working nearly seamlessly by using Wine/Proton as an impedance layer.
Valve always treated me well as a customer, but most importantly contributed back to the community.
These idiots now present themselves with a slop coded piece of junk and say “Look how fast this thing starts!”
I would slap them silly with a wet handdock if I could.
My gaming just happens on a SteamDeck. There I do not feel the launcher slow. Is it a Windows thing?
Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?
Not for me.
Wish it was faster sure.
Steam is significantly slower to open that Heroic or Lutris.
Sometimes big picture but I only use it for like 10 seconds then launch my game.
But the new “Preview” app “will have some bugs,” Epic warns.
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 ☺️
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
They removed native Linux ports from games and updated others so they would no longer work on Linux or in proton. They made it this way.
