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If your on liunx (and steam deck) I can give you the commands I used to install java 8, 17 and 21 command this command downloads java from adoptium, if you want java 8 or 17 just ask and ill post them too just copy and paste this command in the temmanal in order, after you paste one press enter, when thats done do the next one wget https://github.com/adoptium/temurin21-binaries/releases/download/jdk-21.0.3%2B9/OpenJDK21U-jre_x64_linux_hotspot_21.0.3_9.tar.gz tar -xvf OpenJDK21U-jre_x64_linux_hotspot_21.0.3_9.tar.gz sudo mv jdk-21.0.3+9-jre /opt/ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk-21.0.3+9-jre/bin/java 500 after this line open prism and java 21 should be there More on reddit.com

If you’re trying to play on steam deck…I haven’t been able to get anything past 1.19 to work More on reddit.com

Corretto 21 (from Amazon) officially supports RHEL 6+. So you could use that just fine. Corretto is a pretty standard Java distribution now, but you still may or may not need to vet it. It is downstream of OpenJDK and has decent LTS support guarantees from Amazon More on reddit.com