The new one opens faster and has a better UI, but it feels so bad to use, every resize and interaction causes elements to shift around weirdly, the scrolling feels horrible somehow, there's a random sidebar (pictured) that is empty and that i can't hide. Also, although, to it's credit, the app opens fast and responds instantly to clicks, every async load (store page, game banner) is incredibly sluggish.

And on Linux it's only available as an app-image, doesn't support Server Side Decorations and somehow reverts my cursor the default X one, which I have never seen an app-image do.

Basically it kinda sucks, although the UX team did a good job, the UI looks nice enough and is easy to navigate, if only because there's like no features.

Edit: apparently the sidebar is meant to be a social panel, but it broke as soon as I resized the window, lmao.

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Hmm. Will have to give it a try. Just got a Steam Machine and was about to go futz with running the old launcher under proton.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Just use Heroic launcher. No need to bother with a half baked effort from Epic.

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