Will we ever see proper Linux support.
Considering a lot of gaming enthusiast are already on Linux, the massive shift of users moving off of windows because various reasons I’m sure you are aware of will be ever see native Linux support.
With wow now coming to console, more and more handhelds using Steam os, it seems like an absolute no brainer to add native Linux support.
It depends as this would pull more development time from the already stretched thin dev team. They already have enough issues as is with many unsolved bugs.
With the support of Geforce NOW, adding support for any currently unsupported platform would be (pretty much) a waste of resources.
I massively disagree with this as that’s a laid subscription with limited play time and also UI restraints, albeit Nvidia has some you can load and it does remember some of the config it is not consistent enough the vast majority of the competitive player base
Competitive as in just rated content? Works fine, more than fine.
Competitive as in R1 / World’s First, then yeah, this entire subject is no issue as they can just adapt to Windows.
To be fair, Microsoft has been slowly edging towards Unix/Linux anyways. Proton development tools also have helped make a lot of the Windows stuff easier to port over to Linux so on a business side of things, making WoW and any other game on Blizzard side get official support would only increase monthly subscription money. As with getting it sorted development wise to get it onto consoles like how ESO etc are on there.
It’s doable, but depends on if said parent company wants to put more money into it to increase the development team to make it happen though.
I’ve been playing on Bazzite (traditional desktop) since roughly the new year, which is a SteamOS clone, but the OS really isn’t as important, if your distro can run proton it should be possible and if it can run steam it should even be easy
I downloaded the battle.net exe installer file, gave it a dedicated folder on my interal games disk, added it as a non steam game and put proton 10 compatability mode on for it then ran it.
It allowed me to install the launcher, which then allowed me to install wow from the launcher so nothing special there.
It was a bit finicky at first to find the local folder wow installed itself too but addons work as well. You can just keep the non steam game on the battle.net for ease cause that allows automatic updates (many guides suggest you add the world of warcraft .exe as a non steam game and go from there but you can just keep it on the launcher if you want easy of comfort like auto updates)
I havn’t bothered getting a addon manager working on it though, but I also never liked using those to begin with.
One advice for distro hopping, if you have older hardware like a laptop you havn’t touched in a few years thats obsolete, try the OS you want to try out there first before considering migrating on your main machine. If you’re not used to going to a different OS, read instructions and read them well
I havn’t noticed any gains in performance, but I also havn’t noticed any dips, things are stable.
To answer the question directly tho, I don’t think we’ll get official support anytime soon, but it seems Steam has laid a lot of the groundwork with atleast running it on a linux OS through Proton