How can it be so bad?

heroic games launcher is a foss epic and gog launcher, works very well and very fast for me on linux. it has a windows version, too.

Oh this is very cool. Thanks for pointing me in this direction
Can recommend. Have it on my steam deck and PC. Runs great.
I didn't know it had a Windows version. Thanks for the heads up 👍

It's long because you have to copy and paste your password from the manager (and click "remember me") every time.

- Honestly?
  Steam probably puts more into security or something and has more confidence in themselves, and the others don't and they know it and so they have half-assed approaches that put the burden on YOU to reduce their risk.

Billy, no!
- Billy gonna learn he ain't ever to old for a whoopin'.
The competitor to the monopoly.
Why does it matter?
Meet 'n' HUH???

I find the video from LTT kinda hilarious with the 96 core threadripper. Breaking records in cinebench but Cities Skylines 2 still runs like shit (in a 1mio pop city).

Because chances are the 7800X3D will be faster due to the cache.
Real-world applications often can only be parallelized so and so much, before you start hitting diminishing returns for many reasons. A lot of it is about the actual technical design as much as it is the technical execution (you can't parallelize two operations if one depends on the result of the other).
- Also cache optimization has been a huge trend in games programming in recent years
- I’m not sure the 7800X3D would even run a mil pop city. They were using 64 of the 96 cores running Skylines 2.

The Epic Games store is so fucking behind I actually can't understand it. Is there a single intern they rotate between semesters to build their client? It feels like yesterday they actually introduced a favoriting system to the library.

Do people just bash epic to bash epic?

No one I talk to in real life has ever had one of these complaints about the launcher, it has its issues, but logging and startup isn’t them.

Really? It takes ages to open for me.
- Few seconds, steam takes longer. And I’ve never had login issues too.
  Is it from linked accounts or privacy clearing techniques?
Yes. Over the years I just stick to Steam partly because it actually keeps me logged in and actually functions faster than a snails pace.
Uplay/Uconnect whatever they wanna call themselves today is the worst. But Origin/EA and Epic ain't much better.
- egs games are drm-free and with Legendary it's a really nice experience (I'm using legendary with playnite)
  never lost my token/login
  the epic servers are kinda slow tho
Why would I bash EGS? How can I even bash it when it doesn't support Linux?
There are valid reasons to bash Epic. I've written about some of them in another comment thread I made on Lemmy, but the overall problem I (and likely many others) have with them is a combination of their CEO's hypocrisy and the company's actions.
Same here. I run it on windows 11 and sign in with Google... never really noticed any performance issues.
- While both of our claims are anecdotal, I've had it cause performance issues. It definitely isn't the normal behavior for EGS and was probably a bug, but on my system it was sometimes sitting in the tray consuming 10 GB of system memory (and causing excessive swapping due to memory pressure).
I didn't realise you could bash it? Isn't it a GUI application? And one that needs to run inside wine at that?

Wow Ubisoft game launcher opens in... Never? Wtf I paid money for this game and then I need to buy it again because they didn't actually give me the account and now the launcher is just dead and I can't even open it.

Fuck that. I bought one of the assassins creed games legitimately, then had it refuse to launch after a few weeks because they updated their launcher and borked it. I then pirated that same game to bypass the launcher issue and pirated every other ubisoft game since then.
If I have to pirate games to get around a deliberate flaw you worked into your program, I'm not paying for that game.
- Yeah I paid $30 for rainbow 6 siege I expect to be able to play it for more than 2 weeks. Like honestly it would be so much cheaper and easier to just use the steam launcher, since the game is already sold there, but no they have to be special.

use legendary

I hate that. I have to look up my password every single time.
- Change your password to 'Skirt', then you'll love looking up your password.

Electron + hell lot of JavaScript.

Well, now opens to a black screen in two minutes.

Might take a restart if you want some content in it.

Every other time I play Chivalry 2 I get an ad pop-up (or 2) mid duel. Maybe I should just re-buy on Steam...

Steam can't be run in minimal anymore, internal browser always eats a GB of RAM if you want to play a steam game.

I decided about 10 years ago that I just can't afford to keep updating my computer every couple of years just so I can play new titles. So now I just play old titles. And if you play old enough titles, you don't even have to go to a torrent site. You can go directly to the Internet Archive.

I keep rediscovering games I loved when I was younger. I've been playing Skyroads lately. I still love the music. You know how long it takes to load Skyroads on a computer from 2015? I have no idea either because it loads faster than I can measure time.

This has been your lecture from a crotchety old man.