I think this speaks for itself.

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That's what you get for making apps with fucking Electron, aka "a Chrome browser that only opens a single website"
- What makes me confused is that the epic games website is a lot quicker than their app. I reckon they’re not using electron and maybe are using something much worse. Not sure if it was a joke but long ago I’ve heard someone suggesting it was actually unreal engine and not electron
  
  It IS unreal engine
- Huh, someone else here said it uses Unreal engine
  
  Huh, I always thought it was Electron, because I've had an older version of EGS show some fonts in super low res, much like Discord did, which is a known bug with Electron and hardware acceleration
- You know those ad banners you get on mobile? What do you think they run on
  
  My phone, duh.
  
  Ad... banners? I haven't seen an ad on my phone in years.
  
  Ad banners? I haven't seen one since forever. I have no idea what you are even talking about.
  
  That's probably mostly Flutter, which is slightly different scope, though still Google
  
  No idea what you're talking about
  
  Silicon and gold

Giga chads use heroic launcher instead ;)
- Now also supports Amazon Games. Get it while it's hot.
  
  what the hell is amazon games

Heroic Games Launcher
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
Available on Linux, MacOS and Windows :)
- Huh, didn't know it was available for windows.
  Also I resent it being called "native" when it's made with electron
  
  Welcome to 2023 where native means a webpage in an embedded browser.
  
  It's a cool project, but it's certainly not native (and despite what the other comment says, even in 2023, Electron apps are not native 😅)
  
  If an Electron feels faster than the EGS app then boy...
- Been installing all of my GOG and Epic titles on Nobara with this! Super easy. Just select the Proton version you have installed and you're good to go!

Epic Games: Not even once.
- Sadly the only way to play Rocket League
  
  Yeah :(
- But all the free games
  
  Are they really free when the price is your soul!?

Calling out the bulkiest NVME drive I've ever seen.
- nvme doesn't have to be m.2 right? I swear I've seen 2.5" nvme drives.
  
  Correct
  
  I mean, no… but it still needs PCIe, and that usually isn’t getting cabled very far in a consumer machine
- Maybe it's a u.2 or u.3 nvme Enterprise drive?
  
  Certainly could be
- Maybe it's 2x1TB in a casing
  
  Maybe it's just one, and the casing works as cooler
- The size of Warzone 2 makes it physically inflate.
- Looks like an icydock sled

That's what happens when you make a basic GUI in a freaking game engine.
Yeah I know you want to demo your game engine, but I don't need you to demo thermal throttling on my processor.
- Lmao what? EGL uses unreal?
  
  As far as I know yes.
- That's the perfect example of "Just use what your Developer know".
  Just because you can write something in a established technology doesn't mean you should.

Miss me with that DRM shit platform
- Again with that bullshit?
  https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
  As if Steam doesn't sell games with DRM... Oh wait, they make their own DRM!
  
  I think they really refer to the feeling it gives off. Like that uplay client you are forced to use even though you bought the Ubisoft game on steam. Epic just feels like a ball and chain.
  
  Maybe it has changed to better. I don't have Epic Games, but a few years ago I went to a friend's home and tested Epic Games and it forced you to stay online in order to be able to play. There was no offline mode like in Steam.
  I also have a subjective view. I really love the steam communities (uninvolved with Steam), workshop, Proton, Gamer communities. I feel that the approach of selling free candies that Epic Games has used it's untrustworthy. And Epic Games communities look. All friends that I know that have Epic Games it's because of the free candies, but nothing else. They don't open Epic Games for anything else, they don't talk on communities, etc.
  Both of them are companies, but it feels like steam cares more about its community and users.

Everyone gets it wrong with the RAM 🤦.
- How so?
  I do note it is a weird ratio of CPU cores to memory in this meme 🧐
  
  That was my point. 32 cores with 32GB of RAM should be a crime.
  
  maybe they're running a weird dual socket opteron setup
- wdym?
  
  There's way too little RAM for that amount of cores.
- They also didn't mention the clock speed so probably put no consideration into that either.
  Side note: Open up task manager and make sure the RAM clock speed matches the one advertised on the box. If not you may have to override in the BIOS. May cause crashing and if so just lower it a setting at a time until it's stable, it won't damage your computer.
  
  Don't just manually adjust the speed, use XMP/DOCP/whatever your board/CPU manufacturer calls it (unless you know what you're doing or are fine with crashes)
  
  Yeah, yeah, I know, I work in IT 😂.
- it’s just a stupid meme bro

MacBook Pro M2 Max feels lol, it's got a lot of power in theory but almost no software puts it to use.
- I make use of my 16gb m1 by just never closing anything, ever. I have photoshop, 3 browsers, discord, and Shogun 2 total war open in the background. I feel like I'm getting my money's worth this way.
  
  Same. I don't have a problem using all the RAM and CPU cores with virtual machines but it almost never happens. It's optimization that's the problem, and graphics optimization specifically. 38 cores in the GPU but because none of it gets used effectively Civ 6 on ultimate still makes the fans spin up lol

I know this is a meme but is it really that slow? Tried it like a years ago and I remember it being pretty slow for me.
Is heroic games launcher a faster, lightweight, feature-rich alternative?
- Heroic is definitely faster. Though it's buggy at times
- I've never noticed it being slow. Steam takes longer to launch for me and constantly wants to run in the background and download updates.
  I don't like either one tbh. Launchers are silly to me.

i got 32gb ram. today i needed to download more. https://github.com/Overv/vramfs
tf firefox needs more than 32gbs for compiling (actually linking but whatever)
- It depends on your linker. By default, Firefox appears to use the LLD linker. There is a faster one available, which runs perfectly fine on my 16GB machine: https://github.com/rui314/mold. After installing, it can be enabled by setting —enable-linker=mold instead of —enable-linker=lld
  
  well i just wasted €80 lmao

Easy fix! Simply do not open the epic games launcher ever again (and uninstall it while you're at it)
- Based

What’s the OP? Why has credit been removed?

What is 'Epic Games Launcher'
- You are going to feel stupid when I tell you, but it’s the “Launcher” for “Epic Games”.
  I don’t game, but I installed it once to play around with Unreal Engine once. The meme is quite accurate.
  
  Back in my day we just double-clicked on executables or shortcuts to executables. I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing. Seen it pop up in non-game applications too.
- Isn't it the thing that gives out free games that you never play, every now and then?
  
  Death Stranding? Control? All the Batman and Tomb Raider games? Most games I play on PC were Epic freebies.

Same thing I've seen past 60 days with Lemmy. The major sites throwing massive hardware. "Wow, Lemmy now deletes a single post in 7 seconds".

Legendary, my beloved.

I just use Playnite as the frontend for everything and Epic loads a lot faster when the actual client doesn't need to fully kick up. Same for Steam, Ubisoft, EA etc.
- Sadly it only supports Windows.
  
  Wouldn't Heroic be a better option on Linux? It supports both Epic and GOG.
- Playnite looks very good. So it's just a launcher and games manager that doesn't also try to be a store, chat client, advertising platform, and social media site?
  Amazing!

Fun fact: When the epic games launcher crashes it shows a unreal engine error window, hinting at the possibility that EGL might be an application made in Unreal Engine.