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Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

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  • federalreverse@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solitaire Collection is the same story. I uninstalled that thing after first run. Ass hats.

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  • taanegl@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s perhaps time to take either the GNOME Games or some Plasma Apps as bundled collections meant to be served as an alternative to Microsoft apps on the Windows platform.

    I think anything Qt 6 would fit nicely into Windows, especially if it’s based on Plasma Frameworks 6.1. I

    It shouldn’t be impossible to just set up a package and CD/CI workflow to build and bundle together along with a NSIS installer… with the llama logo, of course.

    If people don’t want to install Linux, bring the applications to them instead and challenge Microsoft hegemony on their own platform.

    That would whip some amount of asa.

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  • Mikufan@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine… Like what the actual fuck!

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