Do you think Blizzard will eventually support Linux?

Squee-11918 · February 5, 2020, 8:46pm

The title says it all. I’m curious what some of your thoughts on this are. This is a serious question, so please try to stay on topic. Personally I would love for them to support it as I prefer that over windows.

EFR-11282 · February 5, 2020, 8:47pm

Or macOS as well?

Cynical-11100 · February 5, 2020, 8:49pm

Have you tried running it through Lutris? My exp was pretty good.

Quîsp-1394 · February 5, 2020, 8:51pm

It would be nice, but considering the Linux home OS community is smaller than even MacOS, I seriously doubt it any time soon.

Squee-11918 · February 5, 2020, 8:51pm

I haven’t. Though I read an article recently about some people getting banned due to an extension of WINE, so I was iffy to try it.

FemmeF8tal-1462 · February 5, 2020, 8:52pm

nah but you can keep getting banned from running ow in wine I’ve heard

Cynical-11100 · February 5, 2020, 8:53pm

If you can find him on here bootloxes runs on lutris. If I remember right though he adds proton to lutris and runs the game with it.

Edit: I recommend him cause he is more knowledgeable about it than me.

link to his youtube video on it :I got Overwatch Linux to work with Steam Proton! - YouTube

Quîsp-1394 · February 5, 2020, 9:00pm

Why is that a bannable offense?

Kaedi-11739 · February 5, 2020, 9:00pm

Lead engineer Bill Warnecke has commented on the subject:

Linux port for overwatch

Hey there! While many of us on the development team love Linux we are not currently looking at adding native support.

Dealing with the code changes required to support another platform is one challenge. Outside of the Overwatch code itself we would have to work with internal and external teams to update libraries we depend on. Tools like the [Battle.net ](http://Battle.net) desktop client would also require changes.

On top of all of the above we’d have to split our QA time to make sure we put the same level of quality and polish into the Linux version as we do for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox one… and this has to happen for every patch we put out.

We learned with death match to never say never, but for right now native Linux support isn’t a focus for the team.

Cheers!

Qwazi-2242 · February 5, 2020, 10:00pm

No, Blizzard will not support Linux for the same reasons they will not support MacOS. There is very little return of investment to support Linux as it is a relatively small market compared to the Windows market.