PolyMc VS pacmc

HOWEVER, you might get away with more heavy mods by using PolyMc (not to be confused with the launcher of the same name) which allows for vanilla JE clients to join a modded server without instaling the mods; this should in theory allow your console friends to join.

PolyMC appears to be completely unrelated.

Oof, bad name. I looked it up and the first thing I found was this. I was wondering why it was not mentioning anything related to MultiMC or a launcher...

I just want to tell you guys that ive found a multimc Fork called polyMC which is available on flatpak, it runs completely fine! https://github.com/TheEpicBlock/PolyMc https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.polymc.PolyMC

There's also PolyMC which converts existing mods to be serverside only https://github.com/TheEpicBlock/PolyMc

And if it does add modded blocks you can try using PolyMC as well.

You should give PolyMC a try. https://github.com/TheEpicBlock/PolyMc

It invokes that native file picker dialog on each platform, currently supporting Android, and Desktop (Windows, Linux, osX) using lwjgl and thanks to the work in the pacmc project.

Kotlin/JVM: LWJGL has native file dialog (NFD) bindings, here is how I used them with fallback Swing file chooser with native look and feel.

There are some open source launchers with that feature. I think at least Gdlauncher and Atlauncher have built in mod management (and probably instances as well). But I prefer to use a package manager for MC mods called Pacmc. It is not super fast like Pacman, but it works really well for managing MC client or server mods (I use it for both). The only features its missing for my use cases are disabling automatic dependency management and installing mods that are not marked as compatible with latest minecraft versions, but work just fine. Also it seems like the author of Pacmc is working on a gui right now.