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I wish Microsoft hadn't ruined solitaire. It's now "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" with a whole online component and it's crippled if you're using it without a
by imgabe 8y ago
I wish Microsoft hadn't ruined solitaire. It's now "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" with a whole online component and it's crippled if you're using it without an internet connection. It also drains the battery like nothing else. Sometimes you just want to kill some time on a plane without having to buy the overpriced crappy wifi!
- Foivos 8y agoSo you need a book then?
- acct1771 8y agoActually, a pack of playing cards, but that's a weird response to a common complaint here, which is big companies sunsetting user loved stuff for no visibly valid reason, besides IAP.
- criley2 8y agoPeople being condescending about books needs to stop. I'll just say it: only reading certain non-fiction has any real intellectual or health value over meditation, a walk, reading an article, etc. The rest is just entertainment and relaxation, same as everything else.
- badpun 8y agoI presume you haven't read any great novelists (Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn etc.) yet.
- kaybe 8y agoI think you need to meet those in the right state of mind and circumstances. Some of them go deep into the human condition and our innermost beings, and if you haven't been close to that specific part you might not get it. Then they are just somewhat boring entertainment. (generic you)
- criley2 8y agoI presume you haven't meditated yet.
- danharaj 8y agoI think that's a little too euphoric, friend.
- denzil 8y agoTrue, these were pretty much the reasons I ended up giving up on the collection. Luckily it turns out you can get older version of the Solitaire running on Win10 too, see for example: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/install-windows-7-classic-games-windows-10/ https://www.groovypost.com/howto/install-windows-7-classic-g...
- DanBC 8y agoThe Pysol Fan Club Edition is available and good.
- FreeFull 8y agoYou should look at https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/ https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/ . It is open source, and besides the classic Klondike solitaire, also has over 1000 other solitaire games. And it definitely will be a lot more energy efficient, too.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoAwesome been wanting to fix up my dad with a Linux desktop at some point and Solitaire and Ping Pong from XP were games he played too. Gotta find Ping Pong next.
- FreeFull 8y agoOn Linux, the other solitaire program worth looking at is KPatience. It only has 12 types of solitaire, but has a pretty nice interface. It's probably worth it installing both PysolFC and KPatience.
- all2 8y agoThere is a Mahjong variant that I found when I put Mint on my mother's computer. Both of my parents are now addicted to it.
- jgalt212 8y agoexcept for the fact it's pretty tricky to make a linux laptop energy efficient.
- jsgo 8y agoIt appears to have a Windows installer as well.
- jsgo 8y agoI wonder if this has a solitaire game that was in some random CD of various games I had way back when. I believe it was called Thieves and Kings, but essentially, you had a 4x4 grid and your stack of cards. Jacks go in slots in the 2 center top and center bottom slots. Queens go in the 2 center left and center right slots, and Kings go in the corners. At this point, you flip a card one by one and fill up slots. Non-Jacks/Queens/Kings you try to get into the center 2x2 square as they're unimportant, but in time, you're having to judicially place cards into Jack/Queen/King slots in the hope you won't draw one of those and bust because their slot is occupied. After the 4x4 grid is filled, you then pair up non-Jacks/Queens/Kings by pairs that add to 10 (2+8, A+9, 5+5, etc.) and then repeat the process until you have the outer frame filled with Jacks/Queens/Kings.