Mastodawn

Our 7 year old wants to play Minecraft on a computer now because the Java edition has different features and blah, blah, blah I wasn't listening because he talks about Minecraft a lot and I'm tired 😝

So he asked me for a Windows laptop 😱

Then he got on my Linux desktop, clearly disappointed with what he found, and tried to launch Windows.

I guess it's time to have The Talk 🐧 #linux

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Kamihack Feb 20

@pleia2 I guess there's a way to run the latest Minecraft on Linux(?)

They changed from OpenGL to Vulkan and that's good for Linux usage.

I read there's a Minecraft launcher(?)

I can offer some help, even if I have never used it, just in case you want to rubber duck or troubleshoot something.

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Elizabeth K. Joseph Feb 20

@kamihack Yep! You can even download it from the official Minecraft website. I've never tried it though.

I expect I'll have to buy the PC version eventually, so I should probably just do that and give it a spin.

(We also bought it for the PS5 and the Switch, when will this madness end?!)

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)²

@pleia2 @kamihack Steam works fine on Linux and Minecraft happily runs through Steam. That's how my kid ended up using the Mint server with the expensive GPU to play games while I was using his eMachines PC to (try to) do work...