I must admit that the Steam client is quite slow and bloated. Having used it for many years, I often avoid launching it. Epic has replicated these same issues. Consequently, I end up using GOG instead.
I must admit that the Steam client is quite slow and bloated. Having used it for many years, I often avoid launching it. Epic has replicated these same issues. Consequently, I end up using GOG instead.
Slow, multi-window and focus stealing. Every single window for steam steals the focus, so if startup takes a minute, go grab a coffee or something as anything else will be unusable.
Steam is your typical web-app-in-a-window.
Interestingly, the Epic store is not, or rather it is but it uses Unreal to render it (or at least the Slate UI component of it). On my laptop it uses the discrete GPU to render instead of the integrated one, which has an impact on power use and battery life.
Bloated is one word for it. The difference in the battery life of my MacBook when Steam is running (and doing nothing) versus Steam not running is incredible, it’s the difference between my battery sometimes lasting one working day and comfortably lasting two.
The client is awful on MacOS. It’s even more power hungry and slower than XCode.
its running Chromium under the hood, its like Electron on steroids