I’ve been on a journey to switch to Linux for years. Long before Windows started putting Ai in everything and telemetry was a thing. One hurdle has stopped me every time - trying to consistantly install and launch Battle.net. Wow itself runs great, and I have never had an issue….. if I can get battle.net installed to play it. Battle.net has constantly been a thorn in my side and it feels like the “best way” to install and launch it in Linux changes weekly. Sometimes its Lutris, sometimes its Steam, most of the time it just doesn’t work. It wouldn’t be that hard to just make it compatible with proton. You don’t even need to create a new linux client, just put in some effort to make the launcher work in Linux with proton. Steam already did the heavy lifting for you. You re-built the entire game to work in ARM for Apple Silicon, all I want is just the launcher to work in Linux. Please?
Yep. This really needs to happen.
Stability has been so on and off so now I’m using steam to remote play from a windows machine but that’s obviously not a great solution.
A native launcher would be a huge show of goodwill too. Support your players blizz. 
with microslop in charge…dont count on it. ever.
I’ve been on Linux exclusively for ~4 years or so now and over the course of that time, it does feels like unofficial support for the Battle.net launcher has become worse. I don’t know if the people responsible for that support left, or if the teams are just overworked and understaffed, but it really sucks to see. If corporate isn’t going to dedicate the resources necessary, then I at least wish they’d bring the rest of their games to Steam.
In the meantime, I’ve found Faugus to be pretty good at getting it installed consistently, and the developer seems pretty responsive in adding fixes whenever Blizzard pushes something that breaks it.
I hate thinking that Blizzard rebuilt their entire game to work on Apple Silicon, but wont even take the steps to make just their launcher linux compatible, or even proton compatible. Not the game, just the launcher, since the game itself works great once you get past getting Battle Net installed.
You re-built the entire game to work in ARM for Apple Silicon
It’s true that they made the game Apple Silicon native but you know what they didn’t update? That’s right - the Battle.net launcher. That’s still Intel.