• distante@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    My gaming just happens on a SteamDeck. There I do not feel the launcher slow. Is it a Windows thing?

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    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.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      They were purchasing studios and removing Linux clients from games that already had native clients

      • Derpgon@programming.devEnglish
        3 hours

        I never heard about that. Was it due to moving the games to their own storefront that had no Linux support? Or straight up removed it with no sensible explanation? Got any specific games in mind?

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 hours

          Rocket League was one

          I believe it was delisted on steam as well, but it still removed support for players at the time

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18 hours

    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.

    • nous@programming.devEnglish
      4 hours

      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!

      • Derpgon@programming.devEnglish
        3 hours

        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?

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18 hours

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

    • NoLemurs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      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?

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        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.

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16 hours

      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.zipEnglish
        11 hours

        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
    17 hours

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

    • AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

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

    • EtzBetz@feddit.orgEnglish
      4 hours

      No. The update process can be a tad bit slow sometimes, but the as actual usage etc. is very fine.

      Epic Games on the other hand I had countless times of installing or just starting where it would just ramp up system resources and wouldn’t get going.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11 hours

      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.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
      16 hours

      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.worldEnglish
        14 hours

        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.

    • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
      17 hours

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

  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17 hours

    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.worldEnglish
    16 hours

    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