So I reloaded my 12 yr old laptop dual boot with win10 and Linux.
Win 10 no problems also installed World of Warcraft and copied over the mod folders from my main PC.
Linux- 2 distros failed to install, a third wouldn’t create a usb bootable iso. Finally got Bazzite with Gnome to install and started to play around. Used the built “lutris”? to instal battlenet and then installed wow using the defaults. YaY! it seemed to work fine!
But… Trying copy over my mods from a FAT32 usb stick (linux reconginze the stick fine, but gives no indication that its a USB stick?)… COPY/PASTE doesn’t work! wth. You have to use “Copy…to” ok learning curve on my part.
Now the real issue, using the defaults it installed WoW in “Os install” folder under games, took me a minute to find no problem. “Destination read only” WTF… How do I get around this and why would Linux install a game in a read only directory???
Bazzite is a SteamOS-like distribution. SteamOS is immutable, meaning most of the OS is read-only and have fixed updates.
So what you are doing is not really what Bazzite is made for.
I think it would have been an easier journey if you got Fedora or even Ubuntu, as those are normal filesystem distributions.
Hmm, bazzite is being “advertised” as being specifically for gaming and newcomers. With included drivers and “tweaks” to improve gaming. And the reviews I found said the same thing…
I was able to get it working by installing it in my home directory.
While that is true, what you where trying to do was change the system with the way you installed Battle.net. Bazzite i sreally all about Steam and you then add flatpaks on top, since that’s all handled in your home folder.
But I’m glad you found out the solution with the home folder yourself. :)
Yup. All of that is true. It also protects you from yourself by preventing you from making changes outside of the home directory so you can’t hose your system accidentally. It’s intentional.