Hey guys, is it a fact that there is no workaround for playing World of Warcraft on Xubuntu?
I just recently reinstalled for development purposes and didn’t check prior to that (silly me), but why exactly is it not supported anymore ?
Or rather yet, I tried finding a work around, but it didn’t work.
Any of you playing from Linux maybe and can share a guide or two ?
have u tryed to look up on YT ? there is some videos how it is done .
have u installed newest ver of wine ?
I’m playing on Linux (Debian Stable), using Lutris (0.5.8.3) and wine-staging (6.20). I have DXVK/VKD3D enabled, DXVK version 1.7. I’m using an AMD Radeon GPU, and everything works fine. I’ve used NVidia before, but the NVidia drivers on Linux are amazingly bad, so I switched to a Radeon instead.
What problem, exactly, are you running into?
Xubuntu was failing to recognize distros fetching and unable to register new bash commands.
I managed to get the battle.net installer running though.
It is my first time using this OS outside of the VM, so it’s going to be good tommorow. Gonna read some tutorials
I’d strongly advise getting Lutris, and installing & running WoW through that. It handles all the hard parts.
Heyo, I was wondering maybe you can help me out trough discord a bit ?
I ran into a trouble that my HDD that stayed from windows where I want to install WoW with Lutris has root permissions still, and I tried every command to change root to user
Yeah, I do. I hadn’t played WoW for a while but came back for the mage tower a few days ago and I can confirm that not only does WoW run, it runs at max settings 4K except for the raytracing which is so poor nobody can spot the difference anyway.
If in doubt about how to set it up, I would counsel you to download Lutris, then search community instalers for “Battle.net”, and then WoW should just work with a few exceptions.
If you have integrated graphics from Intel or a graphics card so old that it does not support Vulkan or DirectX 12, forget it - even if that graphics card is able to support it in Windows by running on DirectX 11. DXVK translates DirectX9 through 11 to Vulkan which increases their system requirements but in fact often makes them run faster than on Windows.
Otherwise, don’t forget it and let me know which problems you run into. I will definitely help.
Linux and NTFS are not good friends. You will generally be able to copy files to and from it, but do not try to run games - not even Windows games - from an NTFS partition. It will fail, I guarantee it.
Hey thanks Panda man.
I managed to get it working just now by using sudo in combination with chown.
Battle net is installing right now.
And yeah, Linux seems to be so much faster than Windows. Mainly though it didn’t take me even a minute to launch a localhost server for my react app in VScode.
I have Legion Y530 something with 1050 ti and 8 GB of ram.
Quiet dated but hey, maybe soon gonna get out of financial ruin and get some upgrade.
Thank again panda man, and sorry for being a mean orc to you in the MT thread. Things are very rough right now with all.
Sorry Panda guy.
Something here’s not quite right. That should not be necessary and I don’t know for how much longer things are going to work out.
Buuut I suppose if you run WoW as root and everything is owned by root then permissions don’t matter and everything will be fine. For now.
Linux is incredibly fast and powerful. One of the stand-out features is definitely desktop customisation.
That’s definitely on the rough side but WoW should work on Linux with those specs no problems whatsoever. 
Don’t worry, I generally don’t take offence to things said to me on the forums. Life’s too precious. People get really upset when someone staunchly contradicts their opinion. I hope whatever stuff’s going wrong gets fixed.
I’m just tired of looking at the amount of easy content in the game and yet still seeing people demand that hard content be made easy. The hard content is basically that mage tower and scaled up versions of dungeons and the latest raid, though they exist in easy versions, too. Everything else is trivially easy. It bothers me - I want exploration and challenges for everyone.
EDIT #3 billion:
I just remembered… you have an NVIDIA GPU! Make sure you install the proprietary drivers. I don’t know how to do it in Xubuntu but since it’s based on Ubuntu I’d guess there’s an application somewhere called “Additional Drivers”. If you do not select the additional drivers games will not launch because NVIDIA are pricks and won’t share with the kernel developers how their GPU’s work.
The story of how this is a problem is a long political battle that relates to the GNU Public License from the Free Software Foundation, which basically means everything in the Linux system must be completely open source - that is the code that runs on your PC must all be visible to the user or it cannot be included as part of Linux. Note that this does not apply to extensions or applications you install on the system yourself afterwards, of course.
Did everything as you suggested.
I am getting more stable game than on windows prior.
It’s astonishing
Enjoy
Word of caution though: Blizzard games only! Their anticheat solutions are compatible with Linux for whatever reason, but Activision’s games are not, and merely launching the newest one of them will get your battle.net account banned! You can get it overturned since you did nothing wrong but it’s a pain.
A likely reason for this is that when WoW and StarCraft 2 were developed Blizzard had an employee called Sam Latinga, and he developed SDL and Linux versions of every Blizzard game, including WoW, and now he works for Valve developing Proton and Wine, which is what you’re using to run WoW now. Good relationships all round.
There have never been anti-Linux banwaves for any Blizzard game that weren’t reverted within hours, and only one in total ever I think.
This is Valve’s current compatibility list for Steam games. Most games that don’t work are due to anti-cheat, but most of them have been ported now and we’re just waiting for the game makers to flip a switch in time for Valve’s Steam Deck which runs Linux and, yes, runs WoW.
https://www.protondb.com/
Ask Berners-Lee, think he is an expert :))
He famously used NeXTSTEP, which was made by NeXT led by Steve Jobs. NeXTSTEP is now the basis for Apple’s macOS; that is World Wide Web was developed on a “Mac”, not Linux.
Im sure he has a Dummies Guide though :))
Oh, might do - idk.
Not that you need one.
In order to play WoW on virtually any modern Linux distro you just literally make a USB with a Linux ISO on it (downloaded from the web. Or use Belena Etcher or Rufus), install it, reboot, install NVIDIA drivers and reboot if using NVIDIA and it isn’t already installed, install Lutris, search community installers, install Battle.Net, install WoW, press play.
Subsequent games? Search community installers, install it, press play.
And it doesn’t just play Windows games - it also contains dozens of emulators that it downloads automatically when you have a ROM you want to install. It can integrate with and download Steam for you. It can integrate with GoodOldGames and download and install the games for you. I think Epic Games is on its way as well.
It’s so unbelievably easy it’s hilarious. I’m pretty sure the reason Windows is still alive is basically that
Yo, I used to have max internet speed of 2.3 mb/s on windows, on xubuntu I had dips to 1 mb/s…
On Ubuntu 5 MB/S OMFG DUDE ITS AWESOME
And the terminal, and the app local server creation is so fast, and fluidity omg I’m coming xoxo love you Panda man
Err… this is odd. I mean Linux is generally faster, which is why it is used on servers so much, but it should not produce faster internet speeds save for one exception: Windows Update.
If it does that is indicative of viruses.
That’s weird. Considering I just booted it up few hours ago by making a clean USB a bootable one D:
But I did a few tests, to me it more sounds that it utilizes the bandwidth properly, rather than going into the complete void.
I suspect, that on my previous windows installation the internet was going haywire because of the background processes running due to 3 different development environments.
The speed test indicated that I average around 40~45 mb/s downloading with 180 ping.
However, max speeds before were capped at around the same, minus instances when it showed 20-25 mb/s.
One thing though, I am not sure how this happens or do I need to install additional packages - when I booted WoW when it was around 10% on the download it lagged heavily with throwing me out of the game.
Is there something I might be missing? Or is it generally a better idea to wait for the download (installation) to finalize ?
Generally a better idea to wait I find. But I really think you messed something up when you installed it. You do not need to fiddle around in the terminal and chown stuff and if you do you made a mistake earlier.
Like I said: Lutris.
As for the stuttering, that’s usually shaders compiling. It’ll go away very soon and Steam games will do it ahead of time to avoid this.
Shaders do not need to be compiled for native game or games that use Vulcan or OpenGL already. What it’s doing is translating DirectX code into Vulcan code, but it only needs to do that once.
Oh no, that one with chown was previous attempt on Xubuntu.
Here I didn’t need to fiddle at all just grabbed few packages for vulkan and lutris itself without chowning things