When I try to launch older versions of Minecraft using the new launcher. It tries to load and then nothing. I get no error message or any error to speak of. It tries to start and immediately quits. I even checked the Linux terminal using the top command to check if if was running in the background. It showed absolutely no Java processes running.
MCL-13253
Unable to launch older versions
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What version of Java do you use to start Minecraft? Versions prior to Minecraft 1.13 are unable to be started with Java 9 or newer, so you need to make sure that Java 8 is installed. On Linux, you unfortunately need to do that yourself.