"Sounds like neither of you watched the video. "

That’s. The. Point. I neither watch videos nor read articles that suggest having boiled down a more or less complex topic to ‘the real reason (singular)’. Maybe it’s bad wording, maybe it’s on purpose. I’ll never know.

If a video title or headline claims that there is one single reason for xyz then most of the time it’s clickbait.

If everyone had either stopped buying bottled beverages or cleaned up after themselves, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Also, y’all sound a little whiny. This isn’t even a first world problem.

They compare platforms from time to time, mostly indirectly. Android gets a mention concerning OS version fragmentation.

That’s it, for Apple the mere mention is already too much. Why would anyone want compatibility if they also just could buy an Apple product?

Also the reason why ipads and Vision don’t support multiple users: not only should you buy an Apple product, but so do your partner, parents, kids, etc.

I don’t defend the situation, I get along with it. Is it not possible for some people to have an issue with a product and still be able to use it?

Launchers aren’t perfect, not even Steam as the pack leader. But they’re a **minor inconvenience **.

I haven’t got a single game installed that uses nearly as few resources as all the launchers. Mass Effect LE alone is around 100 times bigger than Steam on my drive. That’s not bloatware, that’s a mini tool in comparison.

Curseforge/Overwolf takes less than 500 MB of RAM, when I launch Minecraft through it the game takes 20 times the amount.

Tell me where the problem is. If your computer can run and install the game it can do so with the launcher too. Some of us can deal with that even if it’s not a perfect situation.

Good grief just read and reflect on the first sentence of my previous post.

I don’t claim it’s not an issue and yes I can ignore it perfectly.

Compared to what amount of resources most modern games require, a launcher or store app needs a tiny fraction of that. The issue is overblown IMHO.

I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

It’s a minor inconvenience. If one can’t afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?

Yes, just like Discord and many other apps that are useful but annoying: You take them off autostart once.

I don’t get why people would rather be angry all the time instead of just performing these five clicks once.

I currently have 8 stores installed and 1 (in words: one of them) runs a background task: Windows/XBox services. Come again.

Tl;dr

It’s not a car company. It’s a PC that when it can run a game it can run a launcher simultaneously too.

I don’t get the “launcher hate”. Yes, they’re not the most convenient, but I’m not playing in the launcher for hours.

Currently I play moddedDragon Age Inquisition. The launch sequence is:

Frosty Fix -> Frosty Manager -> Epic Games -> EA App -> Dragon Age.

Takes a few seconds and I’m in the game.

When you say that it sounds like a bad thing. I’m hopping from service to service too.

I don’t get why people think they can have 15 streaming services for the price of one, and get served the $100 million movie of the day.

And the icing on the cake is that many use this as an excuse to pirate that stuff as if they were entitled to being entertained.

Flabbergasted!

Self-checkout and self-scanning are great when done right.

I only need to pack my groceries into my shopping crate once with the hand scanner. Or when buying only a few items, I skip the lines and scan them myself, pay with my phone, done.