Minecraft's rather large 'Update Aquatic' content update came out recently and it came with their fancy new launcher, getting it on Linux and keeping it up to date is now a snap.
To be clear, I'm talking about the Snap packaging format that comes built into Ubuntu, Solus and more. If you don't have Snap package support, installing it is easy and it gives you easy access to quite a lot of games and applications across different distributions and all kept up to date for you.
Minecraft has been available as a Snap for a while, but it was using the now outdated and ugly old launcher, which wasn't a great user experience. As of today, it was updated to give you the new and improved experience.
You can grab it from the Snapcraft store or if your distribution supports it, like Ubuntu, it can be found by just searching for "Minecraft" in the Software Centre.
If you already have it installed, you can wait for it to update automatically or quickly do it yourself like so in terminal:
snap refresh minecraft
Naturally, you can download Minecraft direct from the official site as well, but for me personally I do prefer the experience of just hitting install and having it all done there and then.
Also, it seems Mojang have already fixed the minor text distortion issue I reported to them recently—great!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Jul 27, 2018
Time to go back to Buster...
Quoting: slaapliedjeSnap pisses me off. Ubuntu literally forces it upon you, if you try to remove it, it removes the 'software-center' even if you're using the Gnome one instead of the Ubuntu one. They changed the dependencies from Debian's 'Suggests' to 'Recommends' for snap. And since by default Ubuntu will install Recommends as if they are dependencies, you have to force no recommends.I'm not a huge fan of snappy either. Nor am I huge fan of Ubuntu or really canonical in general.
Time to go back to Buster...
slaapliedje Jul 29, 2018
Quoting: ScooptaQuoting: slaapliedjeSnap pisses me off. Ubuntu literally forces it upon you, if you try to remove it, it removes the 'software-center' even if you're using the Gnome one instead of the Ubuntu one. They changed the dependencies from Debian's 'Suggests' to 'Recommends' for snap. And since by default Ubuntu will install Recommends as if they are dependencies, you have to force no recommends.I'm not a huge fan of snappy either. Nor am I huge fan of Ubuntu or really canonical in general.
Time to go back to Buster...
Me either. I figured I would give it a try since somehow my Sid install on my laptop became corrupted and it was causing all sorts of errors that made me think I was having failing hardware, but everything seems to be running okay, so may just need to reinstall Debian. Ubuntu is too annoying.
Quoting: slaapliedjeHmm that's kind of a weird problem. I too run Sid but I haven't had any issues like that. I started out on Mint but left because I wanted more control. I've only used Ubuntu itself a little bit but I really started to have problems with it when Canonical was caught sending search data from Unity to Amazon.Quoting: ScooptaQuoting: slaapliedjeSnap pisses me off. Ubuntu literally forces it upon you, if you try to remove it, it removes the 'software-center' even if you're using the Gnome one instead of the Ubuntu one. They changed the dependencies from Debian's 'Suggests' to 'Recommends' for snap. And since by default Ubuntu will install Recommends as if they are dependencies, you have to force no recommends.I'm not a huge fan of snappy either. Nor am I huge fan of Ubuntu or really canonical in general.
Time to go back to Buster...
Me either. I figured I would give it a try since somehow my Sid install on my laptop became corrupted and it was causing all sorts of errors that made me think I was having failing hardware, but everything seems to be running okay, so may just need to reinstall Debian. Ubuntu is too annoying.
slaapliedje Jul 30, 2018
Quoting: ScooptaQuoting: slaapliedjeHmm that's kind of a weird problem. I too run Sid but I haven't had any issues like that. I started out on Mint but left because I wanted more control. I've only used Ubuntu itself a little bit but I really started to have problems with it when Canonical was caught sending search data from Unity to Amazon.Quoting: ScooptaQuoting: slaapliedjeSnap pisses me off. Ubuntu literally forces it upon you, if you try to remove it, it removes the 'software-center' even if you're using the Gnome one instead of the Ubuntu one. They changed the dependencies from Debian's 'Suggests' to 'Recommends' for snap. And since by default Ubuntu will install Recommends as if they are dependencies, you have to force no recommends.I'm not a huge fan of snappy either. Nor am I huge fan of Ubuntu or really canonical in general.
Time to go back to Buster...
Me either. I figured I would give it a try since somehow my Sid install on my laptop became corrupted and it was causing all sorts of errors that made me think I was having failing hardware, but everything seems to be running okay, so may just need to reinstall Debian. Ubuntu is too annoying.
Yeah I hadn't had any issues for a long time, then they all looked like bus errors.
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me