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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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[+] -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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