Our 7 year old wants to play Minecraft on a computer now because the Java edition has different features and blah, blah, blah I wasn't listening because he talks about Minecraft a lot and I'm tired 😝

[pleia2@floss.social]

Our 7 year old wants to play Minecraft on a computer now because the Java edition has different features and blah, blah, blah I wasn't listening because he talks about Minecraft a lot and I'm tired

So he asked me for a Windows laptop

Then he got on my Linux desktop, clearly disappointed with what he found, and tried to launch Windows.

I guess it's time to have The Talk #linux

[pleia2@floss.social]

My husband is using a Mac as a desktop, I have completely failed as a Linux advocate over here

[zhenech@chaos.social]

@pleia2 As long as it's a G5 PowerPC with Debian, he's fine. Right? Right?

[pleia2@floss.social]

@zhenech

To his credit, he did talk to me before he bought it and asked if I thought he was a traitor.

At the end of the day, he needed some software that only runs well on a Mac and getting the job done is actually the most important thing. I suppose. It still hurts my heart

[kamihack@mastodon.cr]

@pleia2 I guess there's a way to run the latest Minecraft on Linux(?)

They changed from OpenGL to Vulkan and that's good for Linux usage.

I read there's a Minecraft launcher(?)

I can offer some help, even if I have never used it, just in case you want to rubber duck or troubleshoot something.

[pleia2@floss.social]

@kamihack Yep! You can even download it from the official Minecraft website. I've never tried it though.

I expect I'll have to buy the PC version eventually, so I should probably just do that and give it a spin.

(We also bought it for the PS5 and the Switch, when will this madness end?!)

[mattdm@hachyderm.io]

@kamihack @pleia2

Java edition Minecraft has always worked perfectly well on Linux. There are a number of popular launchers.

[zhenech@chaos.social]

@pleia2 Heh. Luckily, in this household everyone runs Linux (Reviewer 1 is quite happy with Luanti instead of Minecraft).

But I've also just realized that modern Debian doesn't run on the G5, as that is POWER4, while ppc64le needs POWER8 at a minimum.

Why do I feel old now?

[pleia2@floss.social]

@zhenech I installed Lubuntu on a Powerbook G4 back in 2013. It's still in my closet, with the appropriate decal.

That's the only Mac I've ever owned.

Taming Lubuntu on my PowerBook G4 – pleia2's blog

About a year ago I adopted a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4. The MacBook Pro now happily runs OSX, when we turn it on (mostly MJ uses it for photo processing). In spite of being quite the nice machine for 2004, the poor PowerBook G4 had been long abandoned by Apple due to it’s […]

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[zhenech@chaos.social]

@pleia2 Lovely decal. I own a 12" iBook G4, because at some point in my life I was mad enough to spend money on hardware just to port something to it (https://github.com/linux-thinkpad/hdapsd in that case).

[pleia2@floss.social]

@zhenech Thank you for your work on it!

I got this one from a neighbor in the building in SF who was trying to get rid of it in 2012, so I probably only paid a couple hundred dollars for it.

[zhenech@chaos.social]

@pleia2 mutt/notmuch says I paid 400€ in 2009.

[tom_ofb@23.social]

@pleia2 Minecraft is the origin story of how my son became a great developer. High time your's got access to the "proper" MC version. I'm not even kidding a little bit.
(obvsly I'm not REALLY trying to tell other parents how to bring up their children. I just humbly ask you do be less dismissive of his intent)

[cyberwitch@goingdark.social]

@pleia2 java - jar tLauncher.jar may cure his woes 🤪