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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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[–] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My "Hello, World!" script boots approximately 18000x faster than the Epic launcher.

The difference in features between the two is about the same as it is between Steam and the Epic launcher.

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  • [+] -46 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Technically correct, practically wrong, they are both gaming store bloat apps but steam is a steaming (!) pile of a webshite that takes longer to load than some games (for me at least) and uses 700mb of ram/vram.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    Technically correct, practically wrong

    This is exactly the point made with the ridiculous Hello World-example. It's a parody of the original post. Epic is technically correct, but practically wrong.

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