FYI Prism Launcher is a Minecraft launcher ( [email protected] )
*Data is based on 1908 publicly shared crash logs because no telemetry is collected
It is most commonly installed with Flatpak.
The most common graphics kernel driver is amdgpu
It’s the best Minecraft launcher right now so it doesn’t surprise me that much. Anyone playing Minecraft on Linux (Windows too) should use it
I just swapped to it last week, from curseforge. omg it’s so much better
next swap is to Linux, but I’m really taking my time with that, because I am lazy
Don’t let us peer pressure you, take your time.
It will be fun as long as your curiosity passes the lazy. Speaking from personal experience lol.Do you play any kernel level anti cheat games or absolutely must have desktop Office? If not, just pull the trigger. It’s so worth it.
no, on my personal computer, it’s purely laziness that has kept me from switching this past year. I don’t do much on my own pc lately beyond game, and not much variety lately. I just haven’t gotten around to cleaning up all my data and shit, which in my mind is step number one to sorting out my computers and network setup going forward. I have a bunch of shit to do and just want to tackle it when I have time to do it all, not currently in a ‘tech’ phase of hobbies lol. but soon enough, it is winter after all, with less time outside.
if you’re going for a gaming distro, do yourself a favor and go with bazzite!
it’s kind of the unofficial SteamOS for desktop and has a general philosophy of “it just works”, comes preloaded with basically all relevant gaming communities!
prism is in the app store, bazaar, and literally just a click to install ;)
so bazzite ‘full’ or whatever doesn’t work on my old af laptop, so I went with xubuntu. seems to be working fine. that was easy
the problem now is getting my designated server PC running the server, and I seem to be having difficulties getting that going on Debian, as none of the guides I’ve seen so far actually explain what is happening or are for a different setup. mostly it’s just a lack of knowledge thing on my part, but I have a few hours to give it tomorrow to try and sort it out
good luck!
Make sure your essential programs can join you on the switch, if not then make sure you’re comfortable with the alternatives the Linux ecosystem has to offer. Take your time, and I’d recommend mint.
It’s based on crash logs so you’re assuming all OPs have the same rate of crashes, which is probably false.
Do you mean OS’?
Prism and Modrinth have been a godsend! It is so easy to manage mods and updating
I use this on Windows and honestly it blew my mind how amazing it is compared to the regular launcher. Like it’s one of those things that I have to tell everybody about because it’s that great.
Well, PolyMC (PrismLauncher antecessor) was forked from MultiMC after its dev had a big disagreement over how it was packaged in Linux Distros, so I suppose it makes sense the primary audience is Linux
Is there a variant that allows users not to have to pay Microsoft for minecraft?
No but there might be a json file to drop in your dot files that covers you
Hmmm
Yes, it looks like TLauncher is the Pirate version.
No cause that would literally be piracy.
If you don’t want to pay Microsoft then you don’t play Minecraft.
Go play a different block game like vintage story.
Even if you do pirate Minecraft trying to use mods or do anything with it at this point is so beyond painful that it’s not even worth it. Microsoft has made it a mess.
Even if you do pirate Minecraft trying to use mods or do anything with it at this point is so beyond painful that it’s not even worth it. Microsoft has made it a mess.
??? This is absolutely not true at all. The modding situation is better than it has ever been, in part thanks to mojang making the game’s underlying systems more modular & extensible to facilitate modding, as well as deobfuscating the game’s code.
The only thing you’re giving up by pirating is playing on common servers, and it has always been like this.Bruh.
PolyMC allowed that without a hassle.
Playing pirate MC with mods and play multiplayer in pirate servers is not a hassle at all too.
It’s the same development team, but if Prism officially endorsed that they’d be annihilated by the trillion dollar company lawyers, mate.
i have seen people dualboot linux just because minecraft runs so much better compared to windows
I use it since the login requirements are insane for vanilla Minecraft.
Installed it recently when the legacy launcher stopped working.
I hope I didn’t spam the crash records, because a week ago I kept running into errors with Prism launcher. Turns out that my Microsoft account somehow got disconnected, found through digging and running the app through the terminal. It was reported in the GUI as an “unknown error.” Please, tell me if it’s the Microsoft component that’s failing! (Maybe I should make a PR for that…)
I know why many people prefer Minecraft Java Edition, but I prefer Bedrock. Java, as a language, is so bloated and terrible that I can’t get behind it.
The Microtransactions, excessive bugs, inability to install free and open community mods, and performance loss aren’t dealbreakers?
I get that C++ is largely better for game development. But Java edition is the better game that got the player experience right.
I don’t play with mods, never buy anything with micro transactions, and performance tends to be better for me than Java.
Also, I play it with my kids, who have Android tablets, so I’m kind of stuck playing Bedrock anyway if I want them to join me.
You actually do have the geyser compatibility plugin for Bedrock clients to join Java Edition servers (also community optimization mods that allow the game to run circles around default Bedrock performance). But I guess if you’ve got family, that does kind of tie your hands, since you want to streamline stuff for kids.
Or maybe it crashes more on Linux (or people on Linux are more inclined to share crash logs)
or people on Linux are more inclined to share crash logs
That’s probably true
I was so happy when I discovered Prism because I did not want to install multiple layers of garbage to get Curse modpacks working like I had to on Windows. I still have friends with Overwolf running in the background!
If I installed it on a Linux machine and had mods, can someone on a console join and have the mods work?
Spouse plays on console, and it would make it more likely I’d like to play if I could add some kind of mods
Java edition (the one Prism and most other launchers run) and Bedrock edition (the one on consoles) are incompatible with each other unfortunately. Also Bedrock doesn’t support modding afaik
I’m not sure if I remember this right, but I think there was also a while where it was integrated into the Twitch desktop client
EDIT: Yeah, you needed the Twitch client (with Twitch account) to be able to download modpacks
Oh yeah! Fuck that noise too!
If this isn’t just an artifact of the way data was collected, I suspect it’s not because Linux users are more likely to install alternative launchers, but because they’re much less tolerant of non-FOSS software in general.
Anecdotally, most Windows users I know use a custom launcher, but they use proprietary ones like CurseForge or Feather (both of which show advertisements; something no self-respecting Linux user would accept, but which has been normalized in Windows).
What’s prism launcher?
An open source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability.
Minecraft launcher makes installing mods easy. Oops, looks like OP already commented before me.
