My kids both have Rasberry Pis running Gentoo and we play together, with me on a Mac (my last Mac, 2015 was the peak) via our shared server in the study.

My kids and their friends have PS4s, Switches, iOS, Mac, PC.

There’s bullshit with each platform. PS4 can play, but not with servers, Mac can do Java, nothing else can but PC, etc.

Java edition will work on all x86 machines

Try to play on ARM. Or use the non-Java version on something that isn't Windows. There are always arguments to be found, but most of them are tangential to the matter at hand.