• Zidane@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    My bottles borked my battle.net install somehow so instead of tackling the issue I’ll put it off for months/years and continue dual booting

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      2 days ago

      you can just run battlenet through steam:

      • add the installer as non-steam game
      • set compatibility to proton experimental
      • launch/install
      • find the filepath for the battlenet .exe
      • change the filepath for the target of the battlenet installer to the .exe instead
      • never touch it again; it just works!

      a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!

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        40 minutes ago

        This worked immediately for me. I did have to change the install path because it still thought I had a Z drive for some reason… I do want it to work not on steam but if I can play WoW on Linux in the interim I’m happy lol

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      24 hours ago

      everyone goes through that phase. logs often help a lot, and you will start to get a feel for what may be wrong like you did on windows. once some things become second nature you will stop needing windows altogether. meanwhile, friction means you are learning.

      i usually favor lutris for gaming anyway, it’s better at keeping everything together and updated ime. bottles tends to lag behind a bit by default which is not ideal for games atm.

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        4 hours ago

        I tried Lutris before and it would constantly stop installing and freeze up… and when I let it set up in the default directory it will install and then when I launch bnet it doesn’t show any games at all… anddd when it inevitably decides to force quit out of bnet and I click stop on lutris I get “sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found” … also constantly slowing the fuck out of my mouse/computer… I think I fucked my install up when I initially set up mint… might just wipe and start over again…

        • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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          59 minutes ago

          huh. i don’t think you did anything wrong with mint.

          did you try the flatpak or deb version? was it recent? old versions were hit and miss to me too.

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            43 minutes ago

            Flatpak, I’m pretty sure that’s what the software manager installs right? I tried again today and it gave me the same shit. I do want to keep trying to get it to work though if you have any ideas!