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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (23 children)

IF steam OS is ready for wide release by then, you'll see massive adoption.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Microsoft is so powerful they'll be able to force many games to only work on Windows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

They havent even done that to their own games

I know some people who use linux exclusively for the better performance it has when playing modded minecraft

[–] slackassassin 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was so surprised when I was preparing for the battle of installing it on my kids' computer and found out the answer was ... dl the linux version from the minecraft website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could also install one of the third party launchers( as flatpacks or from their website) to easily download mods

[–] slackassassin 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Prism launcher and ATlauncher are 2 good options

For prism launcher, it may be required to manually choose which version of java to use

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