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A developer going by "EVVIE" managed to combine the worlds of Linux and Minecraft, to enable you to pull up all sorts of Linux desktop windows directly inside Minecraft. Sure does look cool, a bit like running a desktop inside a VR headset like the draft code for the full VR mode for KDE Plasma written about here before on GamingOnLinux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTkEM7b0IQw

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 144 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"do you use KDE or Gnome?"

"Minecraft"

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 82 points 2 months ago

"I use minecraft, btw" was in the comments of the demo video. Had a giggle.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if a creeper blows up and kills me while using it, does it crash all my running programs?

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 months ago

Usually no but for you specifically it does

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Steve Panic!

Please respawn your Steve

Fatal exception in interrupt

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 months ago

"...And then I hit my wood 6 times on the Filemanager which crashes immediately into pieces."

IT-Support: "You, did what?"

[–] hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, it's just a mod? I was hoping they built it with redstone. Still very cool, just not as impressive.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

I don't think it would be possible to actually have a wayland compositor actually interface with the kernel and programs without some kind of mod

[–] potatobro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I saw the reddit thread the modder made, they said they ran Minecraft within Minecraft within Minecraft using this. Ingeniously absurd, I'm all for it

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

inb4 someone does this to end up saying minecraft is the perfect sandboxing program there is.

[–] M33@piefed.world 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That’s good but, can it run DOOM ?

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

There's it is.

[–] M33@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago

Aaaah the famous CPU built inside Minecraft 😊

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

I'm sure it can though someone should try to play Morrowind inside Fallout 4's Pipboy too.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They built Zuck's metaverse but made it more fun and without burning billions of dollars.

And characters come with legs by default.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Put VR on and there you go:

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 13 points 2 months ago

Doesn't have multiplayer support? Throw it away and make an X11 implementation instead. (/s)

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 months ago

Ssh into the Minecraft server from inside the Minecraft server

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

Gives "now go to the file manager" a whole new meaning.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I...I really kind of want this now. Like an honest to bob, turn the comp on and load in to MC running this. I want to walk to browser icon. I want to build a house besides my file explorer. To have a "physical" 3d location for everything in the world and being able to visit your photos, or fly by your games library. Super cool!

[–] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

That actually sounds amazing. I want that so much.

[–] httperror418@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Like the Futurama episodes when they go into the internet

[–] apftwb@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I craft this in survival?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I think is some kind of mod

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Steam Frame just destroyed Apple Vision Pro

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Damn, finally a good demo of what I suggested around 2010 for monitoring multiple displays in 3D - instead of moving 2D windows around all the time and forgetting which part of the screen you put them...

[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

That's actually kind of insane