My internet searches lead me to believe it’s possible to get the Minecraft “bedrock edition” running on Linux. Any pros here have any tips/tricks before I tell my kids that I’m a genius and it can be done? They want to play with their friends who game on consoles/mobile devices. Also, why does minecraft seem so odd with editions and launchers?!
You’ll need to own Minecraft on the Play Store to be able to play on Linux, so that’s one thing to keep in mind, also you’ll need a Microsoft account to play online. There’s not much else, the bedrock launcher is pretty good, and mostly keeps up with breaking changes to the android version.
As for why there are multiple Minecraft versions, blame Microsoft. When they bought Mojang they wanted a Minecraft version that worked on consoles and had better performance on lowered powered devices like phones, so they wrote a clone of the game in C++. And props to them, they got what they wanted, but the game isn’t the same as the older Java game, so the core PC community never adopted Bedrock.
Edit: to be clear, the C++ codebase existed before the Microsoft purchase, but Microsoft was the one that pushed the unified Bedrock edition brand and expansion, and never bothered with Java compatibility.
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher is this the launcher you’re using?
That’s the one.
I heard that this does not work with realms.
I have never used realms.
does that launcher work with microsoft accounts? i think i saw that connection with xbox stuff was finnicky, but i never used it myself so idk
The launcher itself requires you to login with your Google account, where you own the game in the Play Store. Once the game is open, then you can login with your Microsoft account. I never had any problems logging in.