Anyone got any experience with this? Is it actually doable? Does it work?
I wouldn’t recommend trying it.
Wine is a compatibility system/layer which lets (some) windows programs run on linux…
And the wow anti-cheat system will see that as a big bad hacking attempt.
It’s not supported by Blizzard, therefore it’s outside of the scope of the support forums. You could try asking or searching in general or on a site like mmo-champion or reddit though.
I know a lot of people do manage to play WoW with Linux though and from what I’ve heard, they can get near performance parity with native Windows. I think they mostly rely on things like DXVK(directx on vulkan can get super close in performance going from dx12->vulkan, or so I’ve heard) and probably Proton(essentially modern Wine). There are some other interpreters like Wine, but I don’t mess with Linux, just kind of know some names here and there. But again, this stuff isn’t supported and the anticheat engine might not like it.
I’ve been running WoW via wine, installed via Lutris, since BFA. Runs fine; there’s never been any problems with it being considered cheat or hacking. Only the bump a rock when lifting off on a dragon disconnect.
The only issue I had recently was when I helped someone else install it on a debian machine, and had to select an older runner for the initial battle.net install, but then switched back to latest when launching it.
If all else fails installing a debloated version of windows in a VM is about as good as you can get without just dualbooting it.
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