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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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can you "sideload" a uwp or can you only get them via the MS Store
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Emma (IPG) @ipg@wetdry.world
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@autumn yes you can just take an .appx file from the internet and hit install and run it
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Emma (IPG) @ipg@wetdry.world
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@autumn a lot of the pushback from UWPs came from people going "oh they're so locked down!" which was fair given how restricted immersive apps (not quite UWP yet) were in windows 8/8.1 - a lot of the concerns became way less of an issue (but still present) with windows 10 updates but by then the damage was still done

if this is about my post i still think really a lot of applications just would not work well as UWPs but games are an exception as they only require 1 window, really ought to be sandboxed, and don't use many native win32 components anyhow due to needing to be cross-platform (especially when building for the xbox one XDK)
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@ipg wasn't exactly About your post more just me thinking out loud, but yeah that makes a lot of sense. i always used to get spotify as a uwp back in the day because it was essentially the same as the exe that they gave you from the website, so im guessing anything electron based would be okay for an app unless it spawns another window

games, emulators are kinda perfect for that since yeah its all bespoke.

it sucks its one of those "the damage has been done" type things. imagine we had the integration between desktop, console, phone that would've been possible had it been adopted (and windows mobile still alive lol) i guess thats kinda (in practice not really?) happened on macs
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Emma (IPG) @ipg@wetdry.world
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@autumn UWPs only use to this day seems to be to get apps that work on Xbox One/Series lol, most stuff on the MS Store now are just packaged Win32 apps
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@ipg didn't realise that was also possible to do, so ig i wasn't getting it as a uwp lol
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@ipg it had the windows live tile icon so i assumed it would
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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im just wondering because a big things about stuff like that is that ms will have the only store and control basically everything but if you can sideload them then there's no other reasons for devs to bitch other than "That's how we've always done things!"
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