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!

What’s prism launcher?

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 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.

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

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.

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

It's available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.

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

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?

When I first switched to linux and tried to run the standard Minecraft Java client, i couldn't get it to output sound, so I tried Prism launcher and it just worked. And being able to manage mods nicely is really useful

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.

What if it crashes way more often in Linux?

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.

i have seen people dualboot linux just because minecraft runs so much better compared to windows

Does anyone else have the issue where Prism takes forever to launch an instance? I'll try to give more details when I get back on my computer.

Is there a variant that allows users not to have to pay Microsoft for minecraft?

I use it since the login requirements are insane for vanilla Minecraft.

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.