• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I dont hate them because theyre inconvenient. I hate them because there are so many of them. I don’t want more bloatware.

    Include the necessary binaries to access your servers in the game’s master executable, its not hard.

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      6 months ago

      I have several hundred games and a handful of launchers. I start one of them. Sometimes two when necessary. What’s the hassle?

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        6 months ago

        Because of bloatware, which they wrote. Its not that hard. Might not be a problem for you, but that doesn’t say anything about others.

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        6 months ago

        “Oh, cool. I don’t want my 6 different launchers to all start every time I turn on my computer, so I’ll only start the launcher that has the game I want to play, so long as I remember what launcher it is.”

        “Oh, awesome. I started the launcher. Now it’s showing 278GB worth of updates to download since I haven’t opened this one for a few months. Guess I’ll start playing tomorrow.”

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          6 months ago

          Exactly, I’ll start the game shortcut which launches the needed game store and then the game, done. None of the apps is in auto-start.

          Updates are off course done via winget.

          Please stop making up problems where there aren’t any. I already do acknowledge that launchers and game stores aren’t an ideal solution. But they work fine.