Why you may ask. I would. I was simply bored. I only had my chromebook and I wanted to play minecraft. I went to the app store and found I would have to pay. I have brought this game so I was gonna get it to run. This was surprisingly easy to do. ChromeOS comes with a Linux Developer Environment. The setup was easy. I had already done it as I use Akregator for RSS feeds and occansionally Geany for this website. I find ChromeOS really locked down which annoys me greatly. This Environent makes it easier to live with. I would love to liberate it and turn it into a full time Debian machine but I'm not allowed to do any "funny business" as I use this for school
First of all I grabbed the .deb from Minecrafts website as the container is debian based. I ran the dpkg -i command (sudo dpkg -i Minecraft.deb) and it launched the Minecraft Launcher. Unfortunately it got stuck on downloading update files. I left it for about an hour before I tried a new method. I figured I was going to get crap performance since my chromebook has a Celeron N4020 processor. So I decided to curseforge so I could easily install mods such as Sodium. And it worked. Really Really easily
It doesn't run very well with shaders. However the performance surprised me. I thought it was going to run at 10fps at most. It runs at average 30fps on single player and 40fps on servers. One downside to this is that my CPU I could almost cook eggs on (runs at 80C)