I keep trying to play minecraft but everytime I'm at the launcher it crashes and I don't know why. This has been happening for over 2 years and I feel as if buying minecraft was a mistake. This is not fair please tell me how I can fix this.

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*What I expected to happen was I could play minecraft.
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*What actually happened was it crashed
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