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 😝

[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.

https://princessleia.com/journal/2013/11/taming-lubuntu-on-my-powerbook-g4/

[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 🤪