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Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:25PM (#19396183)
That's what UWP does on Windows. And it was immediately derided by nearly everyone for being too closed down.
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Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:28PM (#19396190)
That's because any benefit UWP brought was outweighed by all its drawbacks, at least for me.
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Re:Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and ... by noxxten on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:57PM (#19401587)
UWP was broadly criticized because of how it operated. Every notification I got from UWP was something along the lines of "In order to rename this file, _____ program needs access to LITERALLY EVERY FILE AND PERMISSION AVAILABLE ON YOUR COMPUTER AND/OR HOME NETWORK"

Maybe if these notifications were less vague, they wouldn't be hounded as annoying and useless... Just saying.

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