FYI Prism Launcher is a Minecraft launcher ( !prismlauncher@lemmy.world )
*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
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!
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 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
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.
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
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!
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.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.
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).
I use it on windows. Literally can’t get the java version to run on windows without it (and I actually own the game)
Haha, I just installed prism (via flatpak) to set it up and see what my Linux performance was like compared to my prior Windows performance a couple days ago.
Don’t strongly recall my Windows performance, but pretty sure Linux was doing better, frametimes seemed more consistent for the same result. Also, man, Prism is still the best, such a great way to manage a lightly modded Minecraft instance, with just a few handpicked mods, shaders, and resource packs.
Apparently Java on Linux (for gaming) has some next level black wizardry optimizations compared to Windows.
Many a junk laptop I have restored had Minecraft made playable via linux :)
It’s based on crash logs so you’re assuming all OSs have the same rate of crashes, which is probably false.
Edit: yes I meant OS not OP
Do you mean OS’?
Been off MC since m$ ruined it. Only luanti and voxelibre now. Im having fun again!
Its not a 100% perfect copy, but it works flawlessly, and servers are dead simple to setup. And everything is totally customizable.
I refuse to pay m$ or use an account from them. They already ripped me off twice for the game (because I never moved it from mojang because i wasnt gaming when that transition happened, and they will not give it back), so screw em.
Fuck MS but I will say once you own the game you don’t have to give them money. I bought it on Java from Mojang years ago and didn’t play during the changeover but was able to move it to an MS account and not pay again.
Now with Prism launcher it’s incredible and I’ll never go back to the bloated launcher.
Microshaft set a deadline for migrating accounts, which has now long passed. GP had their account permanently stolen.
I mean it doesn’t sound like it’s stolen, unless the definition has changed, it appears they missed the deadline.
They didn’t steal my account so it’s odd they’d decide to maliciously steal OPs.
Mojang accounts were sold as a perpetual license, and the account changeover was a completely transparent strategy to terminate existing but dormant licenses so people have to rebuy the game.
Macrosimp detected.
Yeah cause everyone is a simp with a differing opinion.
You basically basing your opinion on nothing but vibes. I had a Mojang account and they turned it into an Ms account. They didn’t steal it off me.
I don’t like MS but let’s not just spread lies. You sound as conspiratorial as the fucking right wing you ghoul.
Macrosimp detected.
What an absolute fucking idiot. Who tf talks like this. Sausage is what you are.
Edit: On reflection your comment is even dumber really as if you look at my years of post history you’ll see I’m not a simp for companies at all. Yet over a difference of opinion you want to label people like a little child.
You basically basing your opinion on nothing but vibes
I had mine stolen, because I wasn’t actively playing at the time and had no idea there was a migration or a deadline. So did many personal friends I used to play with. How is that a vibe?
if you look at my years of post history
I did and it’s a long stream of you angrily crashing out exactly like this. Smell shit everywhere ya go, might wanna check your feet, mate.
(Psst, there’s a fork of prismlauncher called freesmlauncher which bypasses the need to pay micros*ft to play Minecraft) you can’t join servers that have their online-mode set to true, which is 99.9999% of public servers, but if you host your own, you can disable it and let anyone join
Also PollyMC (not to confuse with PolyMC)
Ripped me off
There’s a class action lawsuit happening because of it
People willing to play expert modpacks are also people who are willing to tinker with Arch Linux.
Seriously though, there’s so many parallels between modded Minecraft and Linux: they’re foss, they have a billion packages with a billion dependencies, weird bugs pop up and you work around them, and of course, the skill set to automate things in a game like that (or factorio, satisfactory, etc) lend themselves to using console commands and scripts and such.
That said, it’s also just easier to play Minecraft on Linux with a launcher, haha.
It’s available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.
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.
Prism and Modrinth have been a godsend! It is so easy to manage mods and updating
I am surprised that amd is at the top, but the nvidea arbitrary restrictions and tax are quite high.
Let’s keep passing those Linux numbers up!
Side note: why is there a presumably third party “Minecraft launcher”, doesn’t the app just open? What does this do?
minecraft has a vanilla launcher too, because the game started out as a java applet so you need a shitton of flags to actually get the game to run normally. also there’s no way to login to an account in the actual game.
anyway, prism is a mod-loading launcher. it integrates with curseforge and modrinth to allow you to install, build and distribute mods and modpacks.
Oh cool, thanks!
I guess that explains a bit more why Linux is so high, but still good to see.
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
Wow, I thought it was the opposite! That the majority of users are on Linux.
Or maybe it is the case, because the stats have a very limited dataset.
