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[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour 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!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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. once some things become second nature you will stop needing windows. 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.

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 3 points 4 hours ago

My condolences