For anyone playing WoW using any Linux distro, what is your current experience with the game? How easy / convenient is it to install mods from twitch?
With the way Proton is doing fairly nicely with Steam games, I am getting curious if the game runs perfectly fine on something akin to WINE, however I grow tired of using WINE. (Unexpected bugs all over the place, which I completely understand is the nature of the beast)
I would probably be looking at either Kubuntu or Mint. More than likely going for Kubuntu.
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I haven’t run WoW under Linux in a long time, but last I knew it ran quite well. Probably runs even better now with newer LTS distro releases and rolling distros since DirectX 9/10/11/12 → Vulkan translation is now rolled into the versions of WINE/Proton available.
I need someone to reccomend to me a good distro for lutris besides Pop OS. I can’t stand the way Pop OS looks/feels.
That’s what I was thinking about, with the release of Ubuntu LTS 20.04, I’m am seeing various articles mentioning amazing compatibility with recent games. I might pop a live USB and see what’s up with that.
imo, Kubuntu or Mint. Kubuntu retains more of the ubuntu flavor but comes with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME.
Mint looks more like Windows.
I hope Ubuntu 20.04 fixes its stupid installer. When I installed 19.04 and 19.10 the installer screwed with the EFI boot partition on two unrelated drives, borking up both Windows and hackintosh macOS booting. It was easily fixed, but incredibly annoying, and the Pop OS and Fedora installers didn’t do that.
FWIW, changing look+feel on any Linux distro isn’t too difficult. You could stick with the desktop environment that comes with Pop OS and change its theme/icon/etc (of which there are many you can download) or you can install a different desktop environment altogether (KDE, Cinnamon, Budgie, XFCE to name a few).
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WoW doesn’t have a Linux build so what do you do? Run it in a VM?
Seems kinda odd.
Last time i tried it worked really nice on Manjaro while using wine. Didn’t tried twitch though. However i have no reason to think it wouldn’t work. Unless maybe twitch interface glitches into a unusable mess which happens with a few softwares out there.
Yes, we are aware of that. Which is the whole point of VKD3D or WINE.
Windows games can be run on Linux with WINE (Wine Is Not An Emulator). It basically acts as a stand-in for core Windows components to allow Windows apps to run as if they were Linux apps.
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the only way i got a good experience was useing pop os and even then i had trouble with other games
So what like provides WinMain and intercepts/handles calls to kernel32.dll etc.
Yep basically, redirects those Windows calls to Linux equivalents.
I’m thinking that the way Linux and Windows stores its files differently as far as installing them goes, I would expect some issues installing mods from Twitch. But it’ll have to be an experiment I guess.
On my macOS partition I symlink my WTF and Addons folders to locations outside of the WoW directory so both get backed up regularly. It works great for both WoW and Twitch, so I assume you could do something similar if needed to make Twitch “see” your addons folder.
Symlinking worked for that? That’s good news. Seriously starting to consider installing Kubuntu.
I know this question is as old as Linux itself, but I want a want a really visually filling Linux desktop experience. Something with lots of icons and colors and animations wherever I want them. Whats a good distro for tha? Prefer something built on Ubuntu or at least Debian.
I was wondering how long it’d take before someone mentioned what WINE stood for. Studied a bit into it years ago. Had it operational on a computer for awhile. Compatibility via WINE is what kept me from switching.
Only reason I haven’t considered going back with my current computer is the mess of getting windows 10 reinstalled if things don’t work out. And no clue how to set up a dual boot with windows 10 (if at all possible).
Fun fact (for those who don’t know) Wine is considered a Recursive Acronym. Just a fun english tidbit.
Recursive Acronym: A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself.
And emulates bugs and or other bad behavior that windows has to leave in because some random piece of software will never get patches again.
Hey, its not “accurate” unless it includes the blemishes! Isn’t that what purists want? They want the completely accurate, including crashes, version of older products!
Ok, a bit of snark. Just had to make a joke there.
The central advantage of Linux is that it puts the power squarely in your hands. Of course that can also be a disadvantage. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can mess things up.
Windows tends to have issues with letting you do stupid things that can damage the system. But, this can also mean that fixing things is harder because it won’t let you get the level of control you need.
If I could get good support for modern games on Linux without spend gobs of time every single time a patch drops … I’d tell Microsoft goodbye forever. I know its better than it used to be, but it still has issues. That’s the nature of the beast of course.
That and I’d need to finish fully backing up all vital stuff from my HD. Which never seems to happen. I think that’s the main thing that keeps me from switching.
Oh, for linux users (more curiosity) how well does it handle SSDs as the boot drive? Any warts to be aware of?