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Chrulemium (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Inspired by: https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1686188323164028928

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A stick figure pondering: "Hm. If only there was a platform for my desktop application"

The stick figure stepping over many native GUIs to pick up Google Chromium.

The stick figure: "Ah! Here we go!"

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[–] 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

Had to install the feed the beast app to play their stupid modpacks. It was ugly, had ads taking up a quarter of the screen at any time, and it used up a gig of RAM at idle.

On top of that, the launcher would run while the game was running, meaning you had a shitty electron app always running alongside the RAM hoarder that is minecraft.

Really just wish they'd let me install their packs on prism, a far superior qt-based launcher that uses my system's theme.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can't you? There is a whole FTB section in prism when installing mod packs that seems to work perfectly fine for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They removed it in a recent update because they were told to by the FTB team. There's a legacy FTB section for much older packs, but it doesn't have the pack I want to play.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I mean, worst case scenario, you could always try and use the launcher just to download the mods/install and then cut and paste the Minecraft install over to your launcher of choice. That said, I don't know for certain if that works largely because I've never really played any FTB modpacks, and I've always been EXTREMELY picky with Minecraft launchers for a very similar reason (Curseforge's official app has ads and I don't trust that "Overwolf" thing they also make you install to not be spyware data harvesting).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Interesting. Turns out I'm still using version 6.3, which is the version just before they removed the ability to download FTB packs. Thanks for the heads-up, I'm certainly not updating now.

    One thing I can confirm is that if you can find a way to install release 6.3, FTB downloads still work perfectly fine.

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