No - I am stuck with a solution which works out of the box. I mentioned in an earlier comment that downloading Minecraft and opening it by double-clicking opens

No - I am stuck with a solution which works out of the box. I mentioned in an earlier comment that downloading Minecraft and opening it by double-clicking opens an archive. This is simply unacceptable for a desktop version. At the same time I run and ran hundreds of servers on Linux and I would never run anything serious on Windows Server. I am probably stuck with a Linux habit here.