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I would rather kids pirate Minecraft than play Roblox - even if Microsoft is making the Bedrock Edition microtransaction hell, Roblox is exploitative in every layer of platform - developers, players, parents, employees, everyone except the shareholders gets sharked and abused.
My kids got into Minecraft.
I gave my oldest an old laptop. Put Kinoite on it. Now he prefers java edition.
Minecraft doesn't need much. It plays acceptably (for him) on a T460p...I think that's like a 6th Gen i7...as long as he doesn't go too crazy with mods.
Honestly at that point the bottleneck would be Windows if he's using that as the operating system, and RAM. I still play modded Java edition to this day, since 2014 :)
Kinoite is an immutable Linux distro from fedora.
Tho I think, in retrospect, his laptop is still on tumbleweed. Id been meaning to switch.
Ah apologies, never heard of Kinoite.
For anyone who's not aware, there are some pretty cool open source Minecraft options. Like Luanti (which is more like a playground for all sorts of FOSS Minecraft variants).
Luanti is significantly lighter weight than modern versions of Minecraft. It doesn't need a dedicated GPU and will run on almost anything.
I've enjoyed playing Mineclonia on Luanti with my kid. I don't know how it compares to real Minecraft but it's been perfectly serviceable for our needs. It even has an Android client.
I'm of the opinion that Luanti =/= Minecraft, and can't provide a similar experience vanilla or modded, but it's still a useful development tool and sandbox for those who understand its capabilities.
Yeah, i remember reading an article where child devs were getting burnout from working inhumane hours, organized through discord with shit like standups and all the crap from offices, but without pay, health insurance or vacation time, on top of a shitton of bullying - and Roblox gets their cut through their marketplace
Not sure if it's the same source, but People Make Games (Independent Journalists) made two excellent documentaries on the subject:
https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ
https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY
They're 4 year old videos, but still relevant.
That's the depressing part.