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I felt the itch to play Diablo 2 again so I went and installed Battle.net in Heroic. It failed with Heroic's "Proton GE (latest) " (whatever that means) but it worked with Proton GE 10.25.

Anyways, it opened the game list already with a filter for "Handheld" applied to only offer me games that work well on a handheld.

The funny thing is that I'm not even running SteamOS but OpenSUSE. But still Wine apparently gave the launcher enough info that it knew I'm on a handheld.

Would anyone care to test this out on a desktop PC? Maybe they equate Wine or Proton with the Deck. But I doubt it, I guess it went by processor or GPU.

Anyways, looks like Blizzard's unofficial but working Linux support seems to still be a thing.

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[–] priapus@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

According to a thread on the blizzard forums, they just forced this mode onto anyone with a mobile GPU.

However, a few replies say it was fixed my the most recent update. Make sure your client is completely up to date.

I'll try it on my PC when I have a chance tn.