I've had a battle.net install/update problem just yesterday. Fixed it by switching from flatpak to native packages, and also installing wine + as many optional wine dependencies as possible except the ones that clearly make no sense like printing libraries.

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Quoting: iodI wonder if Wine will ever recognize the correct locale for non-english apps.. People keep telling me it's not Wine's job to do so but Windows does it somehow no problem.

I was pretty sure that on Windows I would still run into a bunch of question marks in place of fonts in non-unicode apps and would have to dig into some ancient control panel section to change the default non-unicode language or something like that. It's been a while since I ran into one of those but pretty sure it still happened on windows 10

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Quoting: kaimanWant to update your browser while it's running?

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualAlso, as someone who has never really used Snaps, I've never seen this behavior happen with Flatpak.

Iirc I've read that if you update a flatpak app while it's running, there is a guarantee that the running app will not actually see any changes and they're only really applied on restart. So it's safe to update firefox for instance, while updating a native package will cause new firefox tabs to start crashing, at least sometimes.

Generally I've had very little issues with flatpak for a couple of years of running Silverblue but also on any random systems, while my recent VM experiments with Ubuntu have been pretty weird. Broken appstore self-updates are still there on fresh install, but maybe 24.04.1 will actually fix that. Flatpak also adds some intersting features, for instance if you want to play a game with bleeding edge drivers in case they happen to include some fix for a game you're trying to play, you can run stable Steam flatpak with mesa-git flatpak, and it's way safer and easier than actually installing mesa-git on your system.

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Proton didn't just allow me to game on Linux but was one of the important steps to actually start daily driving it after years of occasional tinkering but not much more than that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one

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Can also confirm online works on my desktop linux with DLC. Maybe it's true that anticheat is now broken if you don't have the DLC. Although you'd think this would also be the case on Windows unless there is a separate anticheat config for it in some way

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