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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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.
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The best part is Steam released an update just one day later that loads faster than the Slopic Launcher.
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Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?
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My gaming just happens on a SteamDeck. There I do not feel the launcher slow. Is it a Windows thing?
Faster at being a shitty platform does not make it a better platform. Just a faster one.
Probably because it has so few features.
On a semi-related note, anyone using a self-hosted Steam-like experience like Drop OSS or similar? I’ve been meaning to try out Drop because my family has a few gaming machines that would benefit from the ease of a store like Steam, but I refuse run anything with DRM or to let any games or clients like Steam have an internet connection to collect data.
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
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