FYI Prism Launcher is a Minecraft launcher ( !prismlauncher@lemmy.world )
*Data is based on 1908 publicly shared crash logs because no telemetry is collected
It is most commonly installed with Flatpak.
The most common graphics kernel driver is amdgpu
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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…)
It’s available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.
What if it crashes way more often in Linux?
Anecdotal of course, but I use it regularly and it has never crashed. I’m using EndeavourOS.
This is about Minecraft crashing, not the launcher itself
Oh, so the Minecraft crash logs show which launcher is used? I had no idea! Interesting.
Kind of, the launcher inserts some information at the start of the log with general information such as hardware, mods used, and launcher version & source. I’ve written a parser that extracts that information.
Or what if it crashes way more often on Windows? Also, can you disable sharing of the crash logs? Are Windows users or Linux users more likely to share the logs? We don’t have enough data, this graph could be skewed either way. Though it’s probably mostly accurate.
The crash log sharing is opt in, as far as I recall
It is
It’s anecdotal , but I heard that Linux bug reports are actually a problem for some game developers. When 1% of your customer base submits 10-20% of your bug reports, middle managers get upset. Apparently several games have had Linux support dropped because of this.
While Linux often has more bugs in games (and so more reports), Linux users have also been conditioned to report bugs better. It helps a lot in FOSS etc.
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You’ve basically summed up what I was trying to say better than I did. To Linux users, bug reports are a good thing. They help fix things. To middle management, bug reports are a bad thing, they hurt their bonuses.
One group needs to change, and Linux users are impressively stubborn.
Yeah, I’ve also heard that Linux users report more bugs, but including bugs that are not Linux specific. So they are helpful to the Windows users in a way.
What’s prism launcher?
Minecraft launcher makes installing mods easy. Oops, looks like OP already commented before me.
An open source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability.
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
Many people on windows don’t know about it tho. PrismLauncher is vastly superior to the dogshit launcher mojang provides. I’m pretty sure there would be more windows users if it was more known.
Prism was the one my friends had me use on Windows, besides CurseForge I don’t really know about other launchers lol.
I’ve been around, there’s the technic launcher, ATLauncher (that one was the go to for making packa for playing with friends), the FTB launcher, as mentioned the curseforge launcher was part of the twitch app for a while (I think it was also something like the Curse app before that?), and then Prism Launcher is actually a fork of a fork of MultiMC, but the in-between fork was a little bit of a controversial mess that fell to a hostile takeover by one of the maintainers - which spurred the remaining maintainers to make what I see as the best launcher currently available. Oh, and I think modrinth might have a launcher now?
Oh, yeah, I also remember the old Minecraft launcher, I think there was a modded version of that with support for multiple profiles so you didn’t have to switch mods manually!
It’s funny how much history there is if you go digging into things like this, and I’m sure I missed a lot.
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!
I’m not sure if I remember this right, but I think there was also a while where it was integrated into the Twitch desktop client
EDIT: Yeah, you needed the Twitch client (with Twitch account) to be able to download modpacks
Oh yeah! Fuck that noise too!
If I installed it on a Linux machine and had mods, can someone on a console join and have the mods work?
Spouse plays on console, and it would make it more likely I’d like to play if I could add some kind of mods
Java edition (the one Prism and most other launchers run) and Bedrock edition (the one on consoles) are incompatible with each other unfortunately. Also Bedrock doesn’t support modding afaik
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.
Apparently Java on Linux (for gaming) has some next level black wizardry optimizations compared to Windows.
Many a junk laptop I have restored had Minecraft made playable via linux :)
I use it on windows. Literally can’t get the java version to run on windows without it (and I actually own the game)
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.
(Psst, there’s a fork of prismlauncher called freesmlauncher which bypasses the need to pay micros*ft to play Minecraft) you can’t join servers that have their online-mode set to true, which is 99.9999% of public servers, but if you host your own, you can disable it and let anyone join
Also PollyMC (not to confuse with PolyMC)
Fuck MS but I will say once you own the game you don’t have to give them money. I bought it on Java from Mojang years ago and didn’t play during the changeover but was able to move it to an MS account and not pay again.
Now with Prism launcher it’s incredible and I’ll never go back to the bloated launcher.
Microshaft set a deadline for migrating accounts, which has now long passed. GP had their account permanently stolen.
I mean it doesn’t sound like it’s stolen, unless the definition has changed, it appears they missed the deadline.
They didn’t steal my account so it’s odd they’d decide to maliciously steal OPs.
Mojang accounts were sold as a perpetual license, and the account changeover was a completely transparent strategy to terminate existing but dormant licenses so people have to rebuy the game.
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Yeah cause everyone is a simp with a differing opinion.
You basically basing your opinion on nothing but vibes. I had a Mojang account and they turned it into an Ms account. They didn’t steal it off me.
I don’t like MS but let’s not just spread lies. You sound as conspiratorial as the fucking right wing you ghoul.
Macrosimp detected.
What an absolute fucking idiot. Who tf talks like this. Sausage is what you are.
Edit: On reflection your comment is even dumber really as if you look at my years of post history you’ll see I’m not a simp for companies at all. Yet over a difference of opinion you want to label people like a little child.
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.
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.
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?
minecraft has a vanilla launcher too, because the game started out as a java applet so you need a shitton of flags to actually get the game to run normally. also there’s no way to login to an account in the actual game.
anyway, prism is a mod-loading launcher. it integrates with curseforge and modrinth to allow you to install, build and distribute mods and modpacks.
Oh cool, thanks!
I guess that explains a bit more why Linux is so high, but still good to see.
If this isn’t just an artifact of the way data was collected, I suspect it’s not because Linux users are more likely to install alternative launchers, but because they’re much less tolerant of non-FOSS software in general.
Anecdotally, most Windows users I know use a custom launcher, but they use proprietary ones like CurseForge or Feather (both of which show advertisements; something no self-respecting Linux user would accept, but which has been normalized in Windows).
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.
