after pressing the play button, the user log/game output pops up with the following error:
Error: Could not find or load main class net.minecraft.client.main.Main
the launcher log is full of " java.io.IOException: Stream closed" errors
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don't you think that its a bit odd that it only seems to effect linux users?
and btw i have searched, couldn't find those
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