[laserDinosaur]

From a cold start, to open steam on my PC: 3 seconds for my account to connect, about 2 seconds to open and get to landing page.

From a cold start, to open Epic store on my PC: 1 minute and 19 seconds of staring at a loading bar before getting to the landing page.

[shpx]

An application launcher adding like 20 billion CPU instructions of overhead to every application's launch is just incompetence. And on macOS it's 34 seconds.

It's really Microsoft/Apple's fault. Their app stores come pre-installed and start apps 10 or 100 times faster, yet Steam is able to exist because you can install across operating systems, it has an identity that works across games, the sales, faster and better game discovery, and the achievements (for the people that works on).