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[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lutris has allowed me to use battle.net though which I don't think steam can do, afaik. I'm happy to be proven wrong, though

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I run battle.net through Steam. Works just fine.

[–] tekdeb@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Personally I prefer having Battle.net in Lutris (or something else like Bottles) even if you can run it through Steam. I just dislike using a launcher to open another launcher and Lutris avoids that.

I can understand that the Steam method would be a little easier for some people, but using Lutris for something as popular as Battle.net is really easy too. You just click "Add" and search for "Battle.net" and it does the rest automatically, even downloading the installer. The only thing to be aware of is that you should close the launcher when it gets to the point you are asked to log in which completes the installation, but Lutris tells you that as well.

[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how did you do it? mine does not start after installing.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I added Battle.net-Setup.exe as a non-steam game and set the compatibility tool to Proton Experimental. This seems to have worked for me. Running on Garuda.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

‘Works fine’ is not true yet, currently.

Especially annoying on steam deck. Is this a Linux issue? No. It absolutely is not.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I also had no(*) trouble installing Battle.net in Heroic Launcher, FWIW. Steam probably shouldn't be much different.

(*) ok, well, not any more trouble than Battle.net usually is on Linux. The point is after prodding at it for awhile it eventually finished installing and updating and started up properly and has worked fine ever since.