This is Epic, the company that have recently mandated slop only development across multiple game lines... Yeah that launcher isn't something I would be comfortable putting my real name and financial details into.

They bragged about vibe-coding this, didn't they?

I appreciate that they are trying to be less bad. But as long as heroic (legendary) exists, I have zero reason to ever use this. I'd much rather have a launcher for 3 platforms than 3 launchers. Is also much more feature rich for me on Linux, but even on Windows that was already the case years ago.

I've also read that it's supposed to be fully or mostly vibe coded, which kinda explains the issue you're seeing...

isn't epic the one that just told their entire staff to not write a single line of code and use AI 100% for everything?

Brought to you by the same guys that were 100% behind web3 gaming because "it's the fyutyuuuurrr" a couple of years ago.

As a testament to the quality of the epic store once I learned I could install Fortnite from the Microsoft store I switched to that instead. I’ll probably just stick to heroic if I want to use it in my Linux install.

Why do these need 5-10 seconds to start at all?

I know steam does it so they can jamb a big pop up ad in your face, but this seems asinine.

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com Steam alternative huh? You go right ahead and dogfood them. I'll pass.

I installed a few games and the only one I could launch was brotato. However the inputs were all messed up. When I tried to report it, it asked me to upload a screenshot. When I did that, it opened up what looked like a very old version of Nautilus? The GNOME file manager. But I was running KDE 🤷

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.