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They've been publicizing this migration for at least a few years - I think I migrated my migration after a communication in 2020). Not sure what the actual implications are for who controls my data, but I can say: as a very casual Minecraft user, this change was pretty well publicized and rolled out.

P.S. Anyone else who has mostly stopped playing Minecraft but continues to watch Let's Plays on YouTube? I play Minecraft probably once every 3 months, but watch Minecraft content at least once a week...

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MultiMC Linux support for Microsoft logins is... weird, which has been my reason for putting off the migration.

The MultiMC dev has since been hired as the official Minecraft launcher dev, and I guess that means they don't want to just be publishing their Microsoft SDK key for the Minecraft logins. But it means they've been on a bit of a war on linux distros packagng MultiMC or Linux users using anything other than his published binaries.

I've recently switched to GDLauncher, so will have to see how their MS account support story is, though it's got more of a "modern"/flat/big pictures UI feel to it and is clunkier to use

The thing with multimc is the dev doesnt wanna support platforms that he doesnt or cant use. You are free to fork it and go ahead under a different name. Tbh I can understand it, he is the only main contributor behind the project, I wouldnt act differently.

No, he doesn't really even want OTHER people to support those platforms. A fork was made specifically because the original developer was quite hostile, which he tried to prevent, despite the license for the project.

https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/wiki/FAQ

I loaded up minecraft for the first time since pre covid a couple weeks back. Was surprised to see it telling me my mojang account was on life support vOv

re:PS, same -- the game itself takes too much time investment to want to play regularly, but the stuff people manage to do in it is really impressive. There's a new programming paradigm waiting to be discovered inside Minecraft...

VOP - Voxel Oriented Programming?

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