com.mojang.Minecraft VS PolyMC

*PSA: it's not actually official!

I always just install the flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.mojang.Minecraft

The best launcher right now is Prism Launcher, a MultiMC fork with Curseforge integration that comes pre-bundled with an optimized version of Java when downloaded from flathub (read: the Discover store), but there are plenty of options including GDLauncher, portablemc if you want a command-line launcher, or, heck, the vanilla launcher.

I don't get it what do you want exactly to know? For Steam games you have to use Steam launcher but for Minecraft you have many launchers to pick: original Minecraft launcher (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.mojang.Minecraft) but I don't recommend it cause it lacks of mod support etc. Best launcher as far for me is Prism Launcher what is for of MultiMC launcher (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher).

Maybe try this Flatpak package.

The official launcher works fine under Linux. It's just a 🥙 to manage multiple modded instances.

If you just want to play Vanilla, then Minecraft is what you're looking for. If you want to play modded, then you should probably use PolyMC instead.

So I would recommend installing PolyMC or Minecraft with Flatpak.

My question is, how to play Minecraft more privately? Now Minecraft = Microsoft. I need a login to their services (Microsoft account is needed), to play Minecraft. The game is available on Flathub and I can combine it with Flatseal. Any more recommendations how to cut-off Microsoft of my Linux machine?

No, not really. No one was in charge at the beginning. It was a community project with multiple people having the administrative role at the same time. LennyMcLennington was one of the contributers, but not really an important one. But he removed the administrative rights from the actually important people. Devs like flowln and Scrumplex played a much bigger role. Even after half a year being the only developer at the PolyMC-Project Lenny still heasn't caught up with what other conributers had done in a few months before. See: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/graphs/contributors

Could I suggest trying a different launcher such as PolyMC? You can get this on deck in Linux linkand sign into your microsoft account to access Java. This version also has the benefit of you being able to get modpacks.

It's still open source, the repo hasn't moved. https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/

The issue is: the main developer freaked out, made a post ranting about political bs, kicked everyone from the GitHub project and now it's been 2 months since it hasn't been updated. The developers who used to contribute to "PolyMC" moved from the "PolyMC" project to the "PrismLauncher" one after the drama.

There was no prompting or provocation towards lenny at all. The code of conduct existed for ages before lenny deleted it on oct 17 2022: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commits/358f080c76dbdfc65f32e08448a5e38b78d2bab0/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

PolyMC: https://polymc.org/

for polymc literally yes git commit (got deleted but title is there)

First, it's gio that handles trash in SteamOS. Second, after digging into PolyMC's code, it also leverages trash. Was added roughly 7 months ago in this commit: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commit/02f30de1c11fa53e61c199032a3280afe618e3b2