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Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Would be so surreal to start seeing commercials for Linux (as a desktop), OEM machines being sold w/ Linux at big stores and so on.

It’s been like 30 years of Windows being the majority at this point and it just keeps getting buggier and more user hostile every year, a paradigm shift is very much needed IMO.

[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I just built a new PC for our family room, and I had planned on making it Linux only…until I found out my son wouldn’t be able to play the full version of Minecraft without a convoluted workaround.

[-] RagingToad@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago

Wait, what? I play a lot of Minecraft on linux. Java version works perfectly. (And I've never played bedrock, but apparently bedrock is buggy? And java is where the mod packs are)

[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Marketplace only works on Windows, and we’ve gotten him a couple of the packs for like Jurassic World, Sonic, etc

[-] AI_655321@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I have only played Minecraft on Linux... What needs windows? I needed to open an Xbox account to get the multiplayer to work, but I was able to do that on my android phone.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

huh?
that should be very easy.
there is even an official flatpack build.

just install flatpack (if your distro doesnt come with it preinstalled)
and then install minecraft, and sign into your microsoft account.

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