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> They are behaving nicely only where they have no advantage.

This. Just look at gaming. Xbox is losing, so they champion pro-consumer cross-platform multiplayer. Minecraft is popular, so they kill GNU/Linux support with Bedrock Edition.

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Bedrock Edition is primarily targetted at the consoles (where running the Java-based Java Edition was difficult). Java Edition is still worked on (and runs on Linux) and they are trying to achieve parity between the two versions.

Bedrock Edition was based on the C++ rewrite for Pocket Edition and has better performance and crossplay.

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