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by bruce343434 1572 days ago
Minecraft is an application which runs on the desktop... I don't see what you mean.
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cgrealy 1572 days ago
It's a game. It's UI is full screen and completely divorced from "standard" UI elements (WIMP, etc).

You can call it a desktop app, and you'd be correct in the most pedantic sense, but then every web app is also a desktop app since you run it on a desktop.

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mellinoe 1572 days ago
Chrome the browser is a desktop application, websites you visit in it are not.
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