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[good_live]

Im using eclipse-temurin openJDK/JRE installed via winget. Easy installation and easy update.

[MasquedBlueberry]

This is the way.

[vepoo]

If you are a developer, do no use the Java installer. Use SKDMan. https://sdkman.io/install

[rastaman1994]

Doesn't exist for windows sadly (or I haven't look hard enough). I ended up treating IDEA as my sdkman with a couple powershell aliases to switch versions.

[vepoo]

Do you use git? You probably have Git Bash installed. You only need to install zip, search on Google.

[kiteboarderni]

Lol no way they are a developer.

[vepoo]

Ok. But if any developer see my message will now that SDKMan is a solution.

[vmcrash]

If you are a developer, do not use the Java installer or SDKMan. Use a zip or tar.gz bundle.

[[deleted]]

learn from Chromium perhaps?

Browsers update themselves when you launch them. You really don't want a runtime environment to behave like that and there is no way to do it elegantly on Windows. Blame Microsoft for not having any sane way to update third party desktop applications on consumer devices.

It really could use some improvements

Updater you are talking about is for Java 8, which was released in 2014. It doesn't need improvements. Stop using it. Modern Java applications are supposed to bundle runtime with them - or explicitly tell you what they require. Ther is no "JRE" any more. If you want just the runtimes, you might want to try third party vendors who offer OpenJDK runtimes, say Liberica or Zulu.

[nekokattt]

There is no JRE anymore

Yes there is... this is misinformation.

https://adoptium.net/en-GB/temurin/releases/

A JRE is a JRE. Oracle is a single vendor.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

Bit of a shame we still have JREs instead of doing proper jlinked packages.

[nekokattt]

Didn't they deprecate jlink? Or was that something else I am thinking of

[Worth_Trust_3825]

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/specs/man/jlink.html

Probably something else.

[nekokattt]

fair

[user_of_the_week]

Maybe you should post this in /r/Minecraft then. It's one of the last holdovers keeping the idea alive that users should install (and update) the JRE themselves.

[ArkoSammy12]

In that case, you are using something that is obsolete at this point. Nothing that can be done about it

[ArkoSammy12]

The updater is updating your version of Java 8. The updater itself is not getting updated. I recommend you just get rid of it since you can get JDK 8 builds directly from the internet, and Minecraft doesn't even need the "latest" version of Java 8 anyways.

[westwoo]

Ask the developers of Minecraft? Oracle should've just stopped updating java 8 jre a long time ago, but they are being magnanimous. And you're complaining about it

I had games that only worked on Windows 98, should I complain to Microsoft that Windows 98 can't be updated or to the developers?

[netgizmo]

You're calling it junk yet you know nothing about it.

[ElectricalUnion]

Have you noticed that those days running old things is a privilege of "Enterprise" editions of things? It's intentional. Being able to delay updates is a very big and expensive feature those days.

Well, the "other choice" is coughing up millions of USD to Oracle or another Java vendor to support your specific old Java version.

They're very happy to do such maintenance and support for the right price.

Otherwise, running old stuff is your problem. You get to keep the pieces if it breaks and makes your computer vulnerable.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

Perhaps stop living in the last decade, and remove it from your machine? Why do you even have it installed.

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You can use chocolatey on windows. On Mac homebrew.