Will of the nonsense that MS keeps shoving into windows 11, and the issues revolving around them trying to phase out windows 10, it sure would be nice for an officially supported release of wow for Linux. I’m sure it’s too much to ask for, but it would be great if it existed.
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No. I don’t think so, as much as I’d love to. Just WINE it up.
Maybe we could get Darling to run the MacOS version some day.
Considering they gutted their whole Mac team years ago, I highly doubt Blizz will start supporting other OSes.
Hopefully one day but it is playable just fine on linux, i do so on my steam deck
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If only Linux wasn’t a fragmented disaster for desktops.
When you say “Linux”, do you mean one particular distro, or all of them? Asking companies to support “Linux” is a massive ask if you want them to build and test against more than a single distro.
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Seeing as Blizzard is owned by Microsoft, highly doubt it. Though I really wish they would just go back to basic’s cut out all the bloatware from a product and launch with the basics like it used to be.
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nobody tell him about windows 12.
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Not in a million years. Even if I wish it were so.
I’ve been playing it on Linux since MoP.
There will probably never be a fully supported Linux version of WOW. It wouldn’t have a return on investment high enough to make it worthwhile. Especially in Microsoft’s regime.
Yeah, but in involves a time machine, and golf clubs, and Bill Gates as your target.
It wouldn’t matter, since you don’t need to design for every distro.
Also it’s not the big ask you think it is, Linux support is pretty simple, at least as adding support for an OS goes in general. The reason it often doesn’t get it is ROI, not because it’s particularly difficult comparatively.
Nobody wants to support a system where there’s tons of combinations of different desktop environments, display protocols, yada yada. Support has to be limited to an exact distro/components that the company requires. That’s the extent that a reasonably sane company can go down unless they want to support every single combination of KDE/Gnome/X11/Wayland/systemd/sysvinit/kernel/hardware driver etc. etc.
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I’m an early adopter of new Windows OS’s. I had no issues with Windows 10 in 2015 and I’ve had no issues with Windows 11.
They should make it illegal to run wow on linux
Several of my older machines aren’t able to run Windows 11, so they are forced out of the windows ecosystem very soon.
And in terms of user experience, linux vs windows for running something like wow is completely irrelevant. You start a game, you are in the game. Why would it matter what system you are in while playing?
Don’t get me wrong, I get the difficulties as a developer, it’s libraries, and video card support, etc. (especially when you are now owned by MS) just forcing old computers to not be capable sucks.
I’ll agree on this point. Microsoft’s very obvious push to shore-up lagging PC sales is a detriment to the consumer.
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I have wanted to switch to Linux for well over a decade but WoW has been one of the things holding me back. I knew you could run it but figured it would be a PITA. I finally bit the bullet and switched about a month ago and it was SOOOOOO easy to make it run under Linux. I am running Mint Linux and use Lutris to run WoW. Once you install Lutris, you can download Battle.net from within it and proceed just like you would on Windows. I had a harder time getting my MMO mouse and Razer Tartarus to do what I wanted them to do, but managed that with some fiddling and remapping (with another easy to obtain Linux app).
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No, that isn’t it at all. It’s about obtaining your information, and probably about providing back doors for the government.
Why not? Do OEMs not pay MS? Lagging PC sales = less OEM licenses = loss of $ for M$
Something that they’ve (allegedly) been doing for decades doesn’t require new PCs.
I have no clue who gave you this silly idea.