You aren’t happy with your selection of free software and still have the audacity to call the people behind that names? You didn’t even read the article did you.

Be a “decent” person yourself and start your own browser. We’ll happily judge.

He only wanted to make sure that no one else could fly his shuttle.

Does your car have the rocket launcher button directly next to the volume knob or what do you mean with life and death?

Oh you mean replace. Swap means (for me) to switch from one battery to another on the go. Of course, replacing batteries in any appliance should be easy and cheap. Maybe not necessarily being performed by the customer.

It was so in the football world cup of 2014 IIRC. Outside was public screening and they had a sat dish while we watched a delayed stream. We could hear the goal seconds in advance. But that’s an edge case.

Why swap a 10 day battery anyway? What’s the use case here? I mean in the last decade I had not a single phone die on me with an empty battery. That’s one day battery life or more, so why 10 days and have it (hot) swappable? I understand that on a hike or while camping outlets and wall chargers are off limit. But there are so good alternatives to having an immensely dense battery in the phone that you don’t also have to carry all the time.

that’s the point I was making: anectdotal evidence is not evidence, it’s opinion. have a nice day.

If there’s one thing I don’t need from a TV, then it’s low latency. The pause, rewind, and skip functions are some serious stuff, on the opposite.

I have a car with a touch screen and some few physical buttons and it just works. Here, I proved you wrong.

Haven’t seen a video of any of these, did I really miss out?

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.

Again, I got to play four AAA games for the price of a movie ticket. How many lifetimes do I have to “own” these games?

I think I got my money’s worth out of the deal. Four big games for a tenner and people are still like "but you don’t really own them ". Yes, I know. It’s more like a very long rental.

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

When playing modded games some rules of good practice don’t apply because of jank. It’s in the nature of things that aren’t designed to be modified. Specifically for my DA:I installation I count about 5 clicks and the game is launched. Compared to the hundreds of clicks in the game itself it’s a tiny inconvenience.

But to be clear once more: I never claimed launchers and game or app stores are an ideal solution, especially concerning their abundance and varying quality.

I want to play a certain game that requires a launcher, then I’ll either get that launcher or I won’t play the game.

No they don’t require admin rights at every startup. What’s wrong with your setup?

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.