I dunno if that's worse or if they play sims on it
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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.
I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing.
It doesn't matter when you have like 5 games, but when you start to get into the hundreds.... A launcher that can filter, group, hide, etc games is nice.
Ok grandpa, time to go play cribbage now.
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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.
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.
Fuck Epic Games launcher. All my homies use Heroic Games Launcher.