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Dejagperd

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Registered: 2025-07-16

Posts: 6

Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

I have been using prismlauncher to play Minecraft for a while now, but recently came across something very disturbing. The launcher was celebrating "pride month"
I decided to no longer use this application, but then found something even more worrisome; it is the only application of it's kind in the pacman repository.
This made me wonder if Arch Linux supports this kind of sadistic behavior and chose to only have a "woke" application in the repository.
If this is not the case I will gladly use the aur, but if it is I want to know as I am against this kind of nonsense and I will no longer be using Arch Linux.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,361

Re: Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

Is there something better that should be in the repos? Is there an actual technical reason there should be more than one in the repos? The maintainers maintain whatever packages they want, usually what they're using, simple as that.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-07-21 12:54:36)

StarWolf3000

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Registered: 2025-06-23

Posts: 43

Re: Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

From my personal experience, Prism Launcher (I'm using the git version from Chaotic AUR Repo) is the only launcher not plagued with lots of technical problems while providing enough features and settings to tweak your Minecraft experience. I used legacy GD Launcher on Windows before, and while it did work enough for my purpose, the whole Electron/Chromium-based approach was not very performance friendly. I sure had my fair share of issues, especially with getting the authentication working properly, even on Windows. Meanwhile Prism got it done in just a minute.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 71,610

Re: Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

I have been using prismlauncher to play Minecraft for a while now, but recently came across something very disturbing. The launcher was celebrating "pride month"
I decided to no longer use this application, but then found something even more worrisome; it is the only application of it's kind in the pacman repository.
This made me wonder if Arch Linux supports this kind of sadistic behavior and chose to only have a "woke" application in the repository.
If this is not the case I will gladly use the aur, but if it is I want to know as I am against this kind of nonsense and I will no longer be using Arch Linux.

I'm meaning this seriously and fully benign:
Get professional help.

Try to read your ramblings with an unbiased pair of eyes:
You saw that some random software maybe engaged in some virtue signalling and extrapolated a complete conspiracy theory from there, where in the end you're concerned that your linux distro is trying to make you gay or what not shit.

You need help.

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Dejagperd

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Registered: 2025-07-16

Posts: 6

Re: Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

Prismlauncher having the least amount of issues makes a lot of sense. I am shall continue using Arch Linux

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: Why is prismlauncher the only Minecraft launcher in the pacman repo?

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