The new one opens faster and has a better UI, but it feels so bad to use, every resize and interaction causes elements to shift around weirdly, the scrolling feels horrible somehow, there’s a random sidebar (pictured) that is empty and that i can’t hide. Also, although, to it’s credit, the app opens fast and responds instantly to clicks, every async load (store page, game banner) is incredibly sluggish.
And on Linux it’s only available as an app-image, doesn’t support Server Side Decorations and somehow reverts my cursor the default X one, which I have never seen an app-image do.
Basically it kinda sucks, although the UX team did a good job, the UI looks nice enough and is easy to navigate, if only because there’s like no features.
Edit: apparently the sidebar is meant to be a social panel, but it broke as soon as I resized the window, lmao.
I appreciate that they are trying to be less bad. But as long as heroic (legendary) exists, I have zero reason to ever use this. I’d much rather have a launcher for 3 platforms than 3 launchers. Is also much more feature rich for me on Linux, but even on Windows that was already the case years ago.
I’ve also read that it’s supposed to be fully or mostly vibe coded, which kinda explains the issue you’re seeing…
For sure, I personally always have had issues with heroic, and don’t use GOG, which is why I went to try the new Epic launcher.
If it worked, that might be a good reason. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.