[sho_hn]

Thanks!

So I gather Microsoft has renamed Bedrock Edition to just "Minecraft" and then there's "Minecraft: Java Edition".

What's the player base split between these? Do PC players still generally prefer the Java Edition?

[RedNifre]

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]

There is 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/iss...

Until that breakage, I ran it quite successfully on MacOS (although it _did_ have occasional crashes)

[sho_hn]

Interestingly, it looks like the Bedrock-based "Education Edition" is on MacOS, but normal Bedrock is not.

[zellyn]

Yes. 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…