My internet searches lead me to believe it’s possible to get the Minecraft “bedrock edition” running on Linux. Any pros here have any tips/tricks before I tell my kids that I’m a genius and it can be done? They want to play with their friends who game on consoles/mobile devices. Also, why does minecraft seem so odd with editions and launchers?!
But in Java you can’t play with anyone that might be playing on a console though, correct?
this isn’t necessarily true. I haven’t played in a while, but java servers using custom implementations like paper or bungeecord can use Geyser to allow Bedrock clients to connect to Java servers. There’s some things that are wierd or don’t work, as there’s a bit of feature parity issues between versions, they’re not the same game. But you can play together.
I used to play on a server with it and people would login with bedrock accounts (free with java purchase) so they could have an alt for dailies and storage.