So short story long my friend who lives a while away from he who was trying to switch to minecraft version 1.8.9 (for pvp). Anyways his java isn't updated so he had to install from the site, however he has a linux and of course it fucked up and everything downloaded couldnt be opened. After switching to chromium, we downloaded java but it installed as a .gz file because of course the pc has a million weird file zippers. Anyways it basically ruined the installer as there was no exe to be found within the decompressed bare files and Im assuming the exe would only execute properly if his pc didnt zip it up beforehand. I probably sound like a caveman here, sorry. I just told him on discord to delete all his file zipping software so we could not have to deal with it right now. I've looked everywhere but I really don't think anyone has cared enough to give a proper response.