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Well the launcher can hardly get any worse.
Today I found out there's no way to change the default install location. And I learned this just today because I so rarely use it. Why is this launcher such a mess. It's seriously like they're not even trying.
You can't? I've only ever used it once, in the past few years, and I installed Fortnite* to my external hard drive. Was on a Mac though, maybe there it's different. But yeah it's still godawful.
* my friends unfortunately managed to convince me to try to play it (didn't work in the end since they stopped building it for Mac and my main gaming machine is Linux)
You can change the directory manually for every single install. But a default install path for your games - nope.
There are open source implementations of their launcher. Specifically there's "legendary", which is the thing that can download and launch games (this is a command line tool). Fortunately there's also "Heroic", which will use legendary in the background and give you a normal/usable user interface, desktop shortcuts and so on. Also doesn't work like spyware for epic on your computer, as their own store/launcher does.
That's honestly good to know, thanks!
Although it is kind of telling that in order to use their launcher without getting a stroke your best bet is an alternative launcher. Still, I'm going to have a look at Heroic. Would be a shame to never touch all those free games just because Epic sucks so much.