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I tried to get Waydroid running on Mint and it was sub-optimal.

I have been using Mint for a few years and really like it.

So I installed Mint on the laptop I gave to my son; it has been a few years; but now he wants Minecraft education. It works well using Waydroid (tested on a VM on my big desktop).

What is the best way to get Minecraft Education (not regular Minecraft) on Linux?

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

IIRC, Cinnamon (Linux Mint's desktop environment) only has experimental Wayland support, so of course it will be sub-optimal. Maybe try labwc + Xfce.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is the best way to get Minecraft Education (not regular Minecraft) on Linux?

Not familiar with that version of Minecraft, but looking it up it seems like there's a Windows version of it. Have you tried the Windows version under WINE/Proton already?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't work, it's packaged as an UWP app which makes it not work afaik

[–] HaraVier@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

(Just ensuring OP is notified: @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz)

Since the very recent 0.9.0 update of WinBoat, UWP app support has been added. So, that's perhaps worth exploring.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

the arch wiki says you can, it doesn't really elaborate on it though

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Minecraft

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago