This is kind of a rant.
I just tried to play league with my friends since classes are now over and we wanted to relax. Queue installing it on our machines. I've only played a few times before so I figured it'd be a relatively simple thing.
Let's walk though the install process.
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Download the installer off the site. Unhelpfully the site lists a bunch of different mirrors and defaults to EU West, as I live on the West coast of the united States, it's not a particularly good default. (Riot, why offer a choice at all? Just look it up via geoip, or use a CDN which will do it for you automatically).
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Launch the installer and download the client. This takes under an hour and is about 1.4GB in size.