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How do I set up World of Warcraft for use with Linux?
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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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As someone who keeps the battle.net launcher around for StarCraft 1 & 2, I’ve seen my fair share of issues with Lutris. For the longest time I was able to run the StarCraft games and Overwatch without problems. Over the last few years though, I’ve encountered random issues where I can’t get it running again.
Rather than keep messing with Lutris, on my current install (Bazzite), I installed the Heroic launcher and did a manual install for battle.net. You can choose multiple wine versions or even Proton if you prefer. I have not had any issues with either the launcher or StarCraft games since. Good chance it may allow you to run WoW too.
Good luck!
Heroic worked, I tried both Lutris and Bottles but neither worked, only Heroic did.
Interesting. Bottles is usually my go to for Battle.net. I hadn't played any Battle.net games in probably a year now when I switched over to PopOs 24.04. I wonder what's going on. I do remember all of your tools needed to have the same flatpak version installed as the bottles version you are running, at least it seemed. Usually not an issue on first install, more like, when you upgrade one tool but not the others. Well, no biggie, at least you have a working install; all that matters.