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.

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

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.

Do people have issues with steam launcher being slow?

Probably because it has so few features.

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

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 ☺️

They should add a feature that auto adds the free games to my account so I don't even have to login in any more.

On another note, let's have a look at Paul Allen's launcher

"Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It is even slightly faster."

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.

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

Within 24 hours, Steam updated their launcher to be as fast or faster, without announcing it.

(Insert "look what they need to do to match our power" meme here)

I think I would stick with the tried-and-true product, instead of the new toy from people who say "coding is hard," because the latter's attitude is a red flag for quality.

Breaking news: software written from the ground up in 2026 opens faster than software that's been developed, extended, bloated, and maintained for over two decades.

Steam releasing a performance patch so soon after makes it even funnier.

Restoring from the system tray will save you 0.06seconds!!! How can Valve compete with that.!.

Oh yeah, by being a decent platform for buying games.

faster than steam

We are setting a very low bar here... There is no person (I hope) who uses steam because the program itself is good... And the other publishers' launchers being crap doesn't make it good

Is it April already? Time flies…

Thank goodness. Steam has been giving away to low fps for a while now

/s

This was actually wrong by the time Epic announced it. But also who the fuck cares how fast your gaming client "starts?"

I open it a few times a year, so yeah, whatever.

This is great news for all of the people that are only using Steam because it starts up faster than the Epic Games Store

That claim lasted for less than 24 hours