Got Em!

There are good open source puzzle and solitaire games that are not resource hogs.

No solitaire but I strongly recommend Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection.

Youngins. They’re talking about the entirety of Windows and calling it all a solitaire game. EG - Windows 98’s minimum requirement was 16 MB, and 95’s was 4 MB.

Solitaire these days has Xbox integration, XP, levels, achievements, collectibles, events, ads, payment system, subscriptions for making it ad free, cheats behind a paywall, ... It's a bit silly.

Next up: Lootboxes for Minesweeper.
The version on my Android is so simple it's hard to believe it's still out there. It's not even listed in my App store, no idea how I'll ever get it again.
- Export the apk via adb and then install it from the file on future devices?
You shouldn't feel alone just because you're solitaire

Wait until you see the solitaire game I'll definitely 100% make after I finish this class on C I'm taking this quarter!

/s

Yeah, I would never want to make a game in C when things like Python or Godot exist.

You'll never fit the game in the boot sector of a floppy disk if you write it in python.
- Oh no, how will we play it on modern hardware if we can’t put it in the boot sector of a floppy disk
https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire
I suppose not a problem if you don't want any innovation in the engine of the game and just want to re-skin something someone else made.
- I don't see how if I were to make a basic solitaire game why I'd want to innovate in the game engine, personally.
  Maybe for a different game, but why would I put in that much effort in a game you can probably download thousands of different versions/reskins of on your smart fridge?
O_o
I fear for the future of programming

TBF I guess, it's the UI toolkits. I see this on Linux too - a "very small" app that does basically nothing except monitor a file for changes, takes many MB of RAM if it has a UI.

Since my RAM is almost never over half used, why not. Just make sure the OS swaps it out if something else needs a lot of RAM.

Yeah, even adding a default blank GUI, greatly increases memory usage.
I guess that's another reason to prefer CLI programs. They reduce the system resource you need to have free at any point of time to do whatever you need them to do.
In a condition when my computer is heavily swapping, I'd go with htop rather than plasma-systemmonitor

What the heck is the thing on the right side of the picture? There's a horse on the left and a what? A robot?

I take it you didn’t play MechWarrior 2 growing up?
- You would be 100% correct
That would be a Timber Wolf I suspect.
- or a Mad Cat if you are not clanner scum!
- Thank you for the linked explanation!
- It's a cow. The ASCII art is used in a lot of different CLI projects
It’s a cow on the left. It has udders. It’s from cowsay

meanwhile pysol fan club edition has about 50 types of card games and takes 230 kilobytes of ram

I like it, but kept running into weird bugs (and I think dependency issues) with different versions of python.
Kpatience for me.
- gonna try kpatience; i need a good one for my mum who plays microsoft solitaire all the time (i want to switch her since windows is losing security updates)
  have you tried the flatpak pysol? that's what i have; installed through linux mint software manager and it works great.
- Python is dependency hell.