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!

What’s prism launcher?

It's the best Minecraft launcher right now so it doesn't surprise me that much. Anyone playing Minecraft on Linux (Windows too) should use it

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).

I use it on windows. Literally can't get the java version to run on windows without it (and I actually own the game)

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.

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.

What if it crashes way more often in Linux?

It's based on crash logs so you're assuming all OSs have the same rate of crashes, which is probably false.

Edit: yes I meant OS not OP

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.

It's available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.

I use this on Windows and honestly it blew my mind how amazing it is compared to the regular launcher. Like it’s one of those things that I have to tell everybody about because it’s that great.

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.

Prism and Modrinth have been a godsend! It is so easy to manage mods and updating

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?

Well, PolyMC (PrismLauncher antecessor) was forked from MultiMC after its dev had a big disagreement over how it was packaged in Linux Distros, so I suppose it makes sense the primary audience is Linux

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.

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

i have seen people dualboot linux just because minecraft runs so much better compared to windows

Is there a variant that allows users not to have to pay Microsoft for minecraft?

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.