I’m really getting sick of keeping Windows just for this game.
The Steam Deck (and Bazzite for the Ally/Legion Go) has shown there’s plenty of gamers using Linux, this has been requested for YEARS, it’s time.
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Let’s say Blizz decides to make an “official” Linux client.
Since there’s a bajillion different flavors of Linux, they’ll need to pick one specific distro to roll with. Then they’ll get massive backlash because [insert random sweaty gamer’s favorite distro here] wasn’t selected.
All of this for a tiny fraction of players who can already play the game using WINE on Linux if they wanted to?
If you think the game is already in shambles, think how great it’ll be if dev time is further split off for something that benefits almost no one.
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Yea thats not gonna happen, there are too many variations of linux and people who custom build their own, that there’s no way to have a cohesive support for it
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The odds of it happening now, with Microsoft owning Activision Blizzard is pretty low.
That said you’d just need to pick a core distribution of Linux, like Debian. The entire point of Linux is that you provide the basic tools and leave it up to the community whether or not they want to adapt it to their own builds.
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You can install the Battle.net launcher in Lutris/Wine. I mainly use an openSUSE distro and am able to play WoW and Overwatch with no problems.
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They won’t make an official Linux client. It sits at less than a 1/3 of the adoption rate (4.45%) of OS X (17.65%) and is then predominantly split into Arch/Rhel/Debian variants (e.g Fedora/Ubuntu etc).
With that said Fedora/pop_os have reported running WoW through Lutris to be pretty smooth.
As someone who has played WoW on Mac for a long time even that client is ‘mid’. It runs flawlessly but then breaks when trying to access Draenor (specifically Gorgrond). I end up playing classic or coming back to my windows machine.
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You can easily run WoW on Linux using Lutris. I did it few awhile and also gamed on a macbook for awhile.
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What about Warden? Does it chuck a hissy fit?
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That’s not true. Different distributions might do stuff slightly differently, but that does not affect application compatibility. Games will still just work. Games don’t really care how your /etc directory is set up.
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it would take them more worker hours to do this than there are players who would use it
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Well clearly Debian…
But I doubt distribution details are really holding this up more than the rendering engine or having any reliance on DirectX or DirectDraw calls.
I too however despise using windows for games. I love what valve is doing with Proton and may just shift myself to games supported officially or with Proton as well.
I think you’d be surprised. If you were at all playing this game in vanilla, and were interested generally in computers which is likely, and went to school for any Computer Science or related field of study, then there’s a large chance that you use Linux and probably prefer it to other OS offerings.
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Proton has honestly done wonders in terms of making Linux gaming more accessible to the masses. Personally I always despised having to fiddle with Wine, letting Valve do the hard work is nice.
As far as I know it’s already being “maintained” by Blizzard by some developers literally just in their free time. It runs pretty flawlessly as is on Wine because of their work.
Linux has plenty of universal package solutions, it’s just there’s not many people playing on Linux, especially on WoW.
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with microsoft manning the helm now…
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Dude, game runs through lutris just fine. I do it daily.
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20 years and it hasn’t affected Blizzard. Why would they change now?
But you can always use a VM. I use one for Linux because I don’t like to develop in Windows.
I don’t know the details about how warden works, but I’ve been playing wow on Linux for almost 10 years now without any major issues.
This is also how I play on Gnome, through Lutris.
Nope, there are games like LoL and Valorant that do though and you can’t play them at all. Honestly just happy to still have the option to play B.net games at all.
I love Linux, and have since introduced to it in high school, but it wouldn’t make sense to make a WoW Linux edition for several reasons.
- Which of the rainbow of Linux variants would they support it on?
- The amount of Linux users that don’t also own a Windows or Mac machine that would run WoW just fine, are a very very very small group. Most people who want to play WoW are already doing so on a supported platform.
- WoW’s support is already under-resourced. Adding a new platform would mean stretching further the already scarce support staff, as well as needing to train them or hire Linux specific support staff.
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you forgot #4.
MICROSOFT.
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