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The invisible majority of players uses Bedrock. The majority of players that stream/post videos or use/write mods use Java. If you want to play with friends (
by RedNifre 4y ago
The invisible majority of players uses Bedrock.
The majority of players that stream/post videos or use/write mods use Java.
If you want to play with friends (Macos, Linux etc.) you need Java, because Bedrock is Windows and consoles only.
- zellyn 4y agoThere is https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest, which can run the Android JARs on MacOS or Linux (by shimming/implementing the Android APIs it uses), but a few months back one of the updates dramatically changed the rendering system, and the lone(?) MacOs/Linux maintainer of mcpelauncher is still catching up. See https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/issues/719 https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/iss... Until that breakage, I ran it quite successfully on MacOS (although it _did_ have occasional crashes)
- sho_hn 4y agoInterestingly, it looks like the Bedrock-based "Education Edition" is on MacOS, but normal Bedrock is not.
- zellyn 4y agoYes. So clearly it's not a question of being able to run, or of weird graphics quirks or something. It's a strange omission. Given that Mojang is now owned by Microsoft, it's slightly suspicious…