Minecraft Help - Linux

[Charlotte P.]

I've never bothered with anti-virus as I use Macs. Even on Windows I never have. I'm surprised Chromebooks need anti-virus as it doesn't do much processing. Everything is in the 'cloud'; websites/apps you use, etc. This is news to me.

 

[allstarninja]

I've never bothered with anti-virus as I use Macs. Even on Windows I never have. I'm surprised Chromebooks need anti-virus as it doesn't do much processing. Everything is in the 'cloud'; websites/apps you use, etc. This is news to me.

Indeed I feel the same. I myself hate Windows.

 

[gamehurricane19]

The only anti virus stuff on my chromebook are industrial VPN to bypass firewalls and connect to my other computers. I use my mac for everything and when i'm not in the house, i use my chromebook. I do have windows but i haven't used it in like 2 years.

 

[allstarninja]

The only anti virus stuff on my chromebook are industrial VPN to bypass firewalls and connect to my other computers. I use my mac for everything and when i'm not in the house, i use my chromebook. I do have windows but i haven't used it in like 2 years.

Your anti-virus is an industrial VPN, used to bypass easily configurable firewalls? ._.

 

[gamehurricane19]

Your anti-virus is an industrial VPN, used to bypass easily configurable firewalls? ._.

I mainly use it in Insecure places like StarBucks so no one installs malware on my device by installing a middleman(The VPN). And yes, it can be used to pass easily configurable firewalls. Most American Schools are an example of Easily Bypassable Firewalls. xD

 

[Marta]

Youtube videos should play fine on linux, its likely that you do not have flash, or youtube html5 enabled. Regardless, try with Chrome, it comes with flash integrated into it. https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?platform=linux

 

[alyphen]

I'd try something other than Ubuntu (or grab another desktop environment, Unity is pretty horrible)
Anything that follows freedesktop standards should llow you to create an application launcher by placing a file in /usr/share/applications with the extension .desktop - this definitely works in Cinnamon and Gnome, and probably Unity since it's forked from Gnome as well. (Cinnamon is really nice, by the way)
Write a shell script called minecraft.sh or something, including the text "java -jar /path/to/minecraft.jar", and save it somewhere you remember. cd to the directory you saved it and run chmod a+x minecraft.sh (chmod changes file permissions, a+x is execute). Create your .desktop file - there's some documentation here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12964512/creating-an-application-launcher-for-gnome-3-in-ubuntu - should work in Unity. For the execute path, put the path to your .sh, and put the path to any square png icon in the icon. Then, restart your computer if it's not already in the menu and you should have an application launcher.
I never had any issues in Fedora, it should be pretty easy.