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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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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's basically the sams way as in Lutris. But it won't be integrated into Heroic. If you want entries for each game you will have to add them yourself. And the games still need the Battle.net launcher because of the DRM.

First download the Battle.net installer from Blizzard. In Heroic add a new game, call it Battle.net or whatever, select the Proton version shown in the post above and choose the option to run an installation program first. Select to run the installer you downloaded and that should install it.

[โ€“] Zykino@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Ok. On Lutris it was proposed directly. I hopped for a more integrated shop but I imagine that's not possible because of the DRM launcher.