Is it safe to say that this positively affected me? For the very first time I installed Linux Mint on my old gaming with a 1080 TI and installed Minecraft/Steam. Minecraft ran beautifully and it is Java Edition 26.2. I've had a harder hit and miss time with games on Steam.

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QuaternionsBhop 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Minecraft (and Java) just runs great on Linux. I've personally experienced a 30% performance improvement from Windows.

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CyborgCabbage 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unless you changed the setting it still uses the OpenGL backend by default

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throwaway314155 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Am I crazy? Even a 1080 TI should have zero problems running Minecraft Java Edition...

	▲	Doohickey-d 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM. And yes, it was playable with IIRC around 20fps, with minimum settings and a performance-tweaking mod (Optifine?). I played it a lot, since that laptop was all I had. Even 0ad (the open source RTS game) was playable on that. That was maybe in 2013 or something like that, so the machine was "only" 10 years old.
	▲	UnfitFootprint 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Raw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.