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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bedrock? I prefer java thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried Bedrock on Linux, with Waydroid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/index.html

Gives a surprisingly good Bedrock experience on Linux and macOS. Just needs you to own the game on the Google Play Store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Does it work again? I've had very mixed experiences with that. Every update just breaks it..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its working fine on waydroid for me at the moment, so it's probably not necessary to try set up that. I mostly play Java anyway. Do you know how to install the google play store on Waydroid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I haven’t used Waydroid in a while, but I recall there being an image you could choose at setup for Google Services.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used it for a bit, it was surprisingly stable and easy to use. However, I eventually gave up on it because it was much harder to find the source of issues in the system.

With tools like Distrobox now available, I'm not sure how useful this is anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Nice. Been meaning to try Bedrock Linux before but figured it could be time consuming. Good that you mention Distrobox. Have played with Distrobox a few times, I like it although with one user the usage of the same files in $HOME was a bit confusing at first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You can make a separate home folder for the distrobox container if case you don't want to get your main home folder dirty

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I tried it but it was too much for me. It's not my thing, but it's a very interesting and very cool project and I have nothing but respect towards the Bedrock Linux team for what they have achieved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's interesting, but it always seemed a bit too hacky for my liking and possibly prone to breakage. Eg seeing the compatibility table here doesn't inspire much confidence: https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/feature-compatibility.html

I also don't like that it hijacks your host distro, it would've be been better if it was a bit more self-contained, like how Nix works on other distros. Feels like the mashup Bedrock does would be a PITA for troubleshooting (for instance, mixing binaries from different distros via $PATH is just asking for trouble). I also dislike that it uses FUSE to share resources between strata, given how inefficient FUSE is.

I think for most purposes, if you really want to mix-and-match distro features, a far cleaner approach would be to just use Distrobox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

What about RockSolid Linux, I mean, Debian?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, it's great. I've ran it on a void linux base, a debian base and an alpine base. Was rock solid each and every time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, it's fantastic if you need that kind of thing. I used Bedrock for years to have OpenSUSE's patched kde-firefox running on Kubuntu. I never had any issues whatsoever. Very cool project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ngl, looks like an interesting and cool project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I rather stay on java linux