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Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 126 points 2 days ago* (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    No, no. You forgot about this:

    The announcement post also warns that the vibe-coded Preview is currently “light on features”

    So a slightly faster launcher that is light on features!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Wait, light on features? That's the current EGS, lol. What else are they gonna shave off? Launching a game? The UI so it is now in a command line? The whole store?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    That's actually a great feature. To be able to type launch from my terminal and not see the store... Fuzzy matching and list completion would even make it better - that could even tie into a store link. launch rocket gets you two games you own in a list and 3 marked with a store icon. Boom! Over to you, Valve

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  • [–] 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry Steam, is not you. But that new launcher is so slightly faster... I can't resist.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    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.

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