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I've been using Steam since the Vista days, back then it was horribly bloated. Got a bit better later on but Discord is hands down better in terms of perceived responsiveness for me.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. I don't think I've ever used discord and gone "wow, that took a while". To be fair, they are completely different.

Strongly disagree. Steam feels like browsing a slow web page.

Most of the time that's exactly what you're doing, if you're navigating through the 'store'. And it's horrible. Steam absolutely is not an application I would point to if someone asked me for an example of a well optimized and performing desktop application.

(And I still haven't forgiven Valve for killing WON, even if I know they had what they felt was a good reason for it)

Oh WON... Those were the days! HLDS (Half-Life Dedicated Server) was a very big part of how I became a sysadmin - I'm sure I owe a big chunk of my career to whoever wrote it and it's documentation!