Yesterday I installed TLauncher on my Linux laptop. I have an official license, but MS pisses me off and I want to try the launcher. I remember today that something was wrong with this launcher. Am I fucked up? Should I reinstall Mint?

    • Alcan@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 hours ago

      Thanks for the alternative! I’ll check it. But my main concern is to know if my laptop is under malware risk now.

      • xavier666
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        12 hours ago

        Prism is open-source. There’s virtually no risk.

        Regarding if your laptop is under attack, just check your list of processes and see if you find any out of the ordinary processes running. Remove TLauncher before doing this experiment. AFAIK, you’re probably fine since malware on Linux is very very rare but better be safe than sorry.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Multimc is abandoned afaik - Prism is the actively maintained fork now

      (MultiMC still works fine I think for vanilla but it’s a pain for managing fabric mods compared to prism)

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
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        12 hours ago

        It’s always interesting how you can just be going on living your life and then someone tells you that there’s this very popular fork of software you use that’s been around long enough for you to wonder how and why it you’re just finding out about it.

        Its happened to me a lot.