Minecraft launcher issues?

I recently got minecraft and got the launcher but when i click the download button it crashes. What am i supposed to do?

masudada 01.03.2017

Minecraft is more dead then your grandma so stop playing you ******* 6year old ****

Bob 01.03.2017

Ahh, I used to have the same issue, download the.jar version and use java to run it

w_dragon 01.03.2017

Reinstall

Nikolai 01.03.2017