My main pc is dead at the moment and im really been enjoying the pandaria event. I saw vids on youtube of wow on linux but my question is is that risky like would that potentially ban me since its not officially supported os? Probably a dumb question
My wife and I have been gaming exclusively on Linux for over 4 years and have had no issues. You do have to use Lutris though which sucks compared to Steam, but anything’s better than Windows.
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Awesome.
thank you for the info 
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I don’t use lutris. Steam and wow work fine for me.
Edit: Except the in game shop. I’ve not figured that out yet.
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Blizzard doesn’t off any support for Wine/Proton, but they wont ban anyone for using it.
There was a case of false positives for it years ago that banned people for it. All those bans were reverted and as far as I know that hasn’t happened since.
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Not a dumb question at all. Linux is not supported, meaning they won’t help you get Blizzard games working with it. They also don’t take the OS into account when making the game so nothing is really built for any Linux build features.
It is NOT against the rules though. Not at all. If you can get it to run you are more than welcome to do that. Just don’t use any cheating methods, or automation software or hardware with it - same as on Windows or Mac.
There are quite a few folks who do play WoW on Linux so any of those forums with a gaming focus should have people who can help.
Yep! Your whole statement is true, including the part about false positives. That has not happened again that I am aware of and it was not on purpose that time either.
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ugh…windows is vomit.
98 was ok
XP pro was actually really decent.
other than that windows has been trash all these years.
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I’m in agreement about using Lutris.
I have run it using the Heroic Games Lanucher since it was an option. I have it set to proton-GE (latest) and have the “use steam runtime” option checked. I honestly see better stable 144fps than I do when I boot into windows.
I just run the wow.exe directly, not from the bnet launcher.
The Battle.net launcher is more finicky for some reason, so I run it in Heroic using “default wine” with no performance options, and it launches and updates the wow client reliably, then I run the wow.exe directly after updating.
I use pop_os 22.04, all amd, wine-staging and other software installed from Glorious Eggroll’ss excellent write-up called “How to get out of Wine dependency hell.” It’s linked on the GitHub for “proton-GE custom” as well as instructions to get you drivers updated properly for nvidia and amd.
Do not use protonge dot com for any reason, it’s a scam.