Please, either keep maintaining some variant of the Java launcher or drop the push toward the MS account logins. Why not skip the integration for stuff (that promptly says you can't use it) and not bother maintaining all the compile flags in the Windows launcher to bring back a 'for everyone else' Java launcher? That was what it was for in the first place! So there is no reason for an integrated launcher. they just got even more sketchy) because suddenly the login is now used across your entire computer ecosystem rather than for a harmless game with its own login.Ī further complaint is that the new launcher still has ads and options for all the new Minecraft-themed stuff like Dungeons, but I can't actually run those on Linux in the first place.

We used Ubuntu 20.04.4 for this process, and that’s where our concrete examples come from.

Here’s how to get your Linux system ready for Minecraft. There are probably 3rd party launchers available, but to my knowledge those don't support the MS account and I suspect there are fees and security reviews to do that (probably going to need to pay for 3rd party launchers now. Minecraft runs just fine on Linux, but it’s probably not available for easy installation in your Linux distribution’s package manager. I don't have Bedrock, but I imagine that has a different launcher anyway, so why not use Java for the Java Edition's launcher? Mind, I'd love it if the launcher could transition BACK to being cross-platform and Java-based for the Java Edition. Legacy Launcher is a simple, lightweight and yet highly customizeable alternative Minecraft launcher.

Minecraft legacy launcher for linux