Windows Store "PC" Games are Terrible Broken Junk

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, the new versions of Solitaire, Minesweeper, etc. with microtransations added are pretty sad things to see. I'm sure it works out financially for Microsoft, but those are supposed to come free with Windows! Windows itself is not cheap, if you buy it new anyway...

This is the sort of thing that makes me shudder when Microsoft says it is positioning Windows "as a service". It's almost enough to make me want to switch to some version of Linux. Well, "almost", since the vast majority of my games won't work on Linux.

If MS ever made Windows a closed ecosystem where you could only play games that went through MS approval, as it is on all mobile platforms, yeah, even I would have to look into switching over to Linux. I have used Linux before but prefer Windows' nicer interface, compatibility, and of course vast games library, but a locked-down Windows would not be a real PC operating system, and something would need to replace that... so Linux it'd be. But here's hoping that this effort goes badly for Microsoft. It needs to to keep computers open. It is encouraging that they immediately got some strong pushback for this, and it will continue I am sure.