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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)
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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] 9 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

You never boot your computer until you reboot it either, yet if it took 10+ minutes to boot like a PC would many years ago, you'd complain.

More performance is almost always more better, unless you're on embedded devices where binary sizes matter, but for us on desktops with comparatively abundant resources, why moan about a free improvement?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    It depends if it's a free improvement or not. If this improved time to open the window at the cost of deferring loading some important functionality it might be a net loss for example

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Thankfully, the only company that I believe has ever made an attempt to make something load faster by making it functionally worse is Microsoft with Windows Fast-Startup.

    "Ah yes, I know how to make their OS load faster... We'll just never shut it down!" - That's Microsoft-tier intelligence right there.

    No, I do not believe that Valve would make their storefront worse in any sense just to beat Epic Games; they frankly couldn't give less of a shit, because they know that the EGL is not competition.

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