[help] Old Minecraft versions are basically unplayable.
I need help, I only play MInecraft 1.8.9 and it looks like this on every distro I use, with any launcher, this screenshot it taken on Arch Linux with LXDE and Prism Launcher. (on windows it works btw)
You don't want to unless you're just planning on running a web browser or word processor or something, they're significantly buggier and massively slower than the proprietary driver, and especially so on newer cards.