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It's shit. Minecraft is so odd with editions and launchers because Minecraft Bedrock is Microsoft's weaponized and monetized version and it is fucking with everyone on purpose. The Java version is the real Minecraft, and it always will be. Kids will never understand this, because they are vulnerable to Microsoft's relentless advertising and branding that they use Minecraft Bedrock specifically as a vehicle for, which flows directly into kids' brains through their social networks (both digital and real-world, in school, in the neighborhood) and all the other marketing efforts their vulnerable minds are constantly bombarded with. Therefore, Minecraft Bedrock is the future, and that future leads you directly and inevitably into Microsoft's grasp. This is not an accident.
I know this knowledge probably doesn't help you at this stage. You can probably get it working in Linux, for now, but it will always be clumsy and sort of a mess because it will always be an arms race with Microsoft's enshittification strategies, and there's a good chance that Microsoft will eventually win. Unless we can somehow all convince our kids, "You know what, this sucks, let's go play with some modded Java version instead". Good luck with that.
I fully agree with this. My son and nephew wanted me to buy them Bedrock edition, I looked at that shit with the Marketplace and the Ads, and the Coins and was like 'No way, this is not suitable for children" and I got them the Java edition instead, and guess what. When they learned about mods and being able to go back to other versions they immediately loved the Java version.
They loved it so much that when they did finally play Bedrock with their friends they hated it because it is buggy and built poorly and asks them to buy stuff often.
You should not buy your kids games with predatory micro-transactions, just like you would not buy them violent or sexual games. I would say they damage developing minds just the same, and maybe more in some ways. You can't keep it from them forever obviously but if you train them in the formative years you can help them help themselves later on.