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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Good for you.

    It’s disappointing but not unexpected to see all of these mods on Reddit bending the knee because Reddit threatened their mods status.

    Imagine doing free work for a company that treats you like shit and still caving to said company’s demands. It’s honestly down right sad and pathetic.






  • It absolutely does feel like the future of personal computing is headed down a highly integrated path.

    This does have positives such as lower power consumption and more efficient designs. However, normally these types of devices are fairly locked down while running proprietary OSes.

    That’s where the Steam Deck shines. Valve is showing that not only can you have a highly integrated and power efficient design it can also be an open platform running Linux. That’s a big part of what makes the Deck special, at least for me.



  • No worries. Thanks for trying to help.

    It seems like the failure of Battlenet to update on restart is a fairly common, possibly even universal, issue at the moment.

    What I ended up doing was using Lutris from within Desktop mode to install Battlenet. I made sure to install Battlenet to a folder I created on my SD card. The guide you posted should work as well but I found Lutris to be a very easy and beginner friendly way of adding Battlenet.

    After that I logged in, downloaded my games, and set Battlenet to close after launching a game. It’s an option in the Battlenet settings. Lutris handled creating a shortcut within Game Mode for Battlenet. So once back in Game Mode I just have to launch Battlenet, launch the game, and Battlenet closes and my game launches just fine.

    I’m sure that I could probably go ahead and create shortcuts for the individual Blizzard games but I don’t mind having the extra step of launching the game from Battlenet. It at least gives me visual confirmation that Battlenet does indeed close and does not remain in the background potentially using any resources.

    Hopefully this is helpful for anyone searching.





  • Thanks for the help.

    I was able to install Battle net using Lutris and while the install was much smoother I still can’t update the launcher. What happens is either Lutris thinks Battle net is still running and it never restarts or Battle net crashes and triggers Blizzard crash reporter.

    I am able to install games though and I am doing that now. Hopefully things will work fine.


  • Thank you. I am going to give that a shot.

    One other question. Part of the reason I tried doing it the way I did was because I wanted to install the games to the SD card and all the guides that included that mentioned doing it through adding the Setup as a non-Steam game.

    Will I be able to install games to the SD card if I use Lutris?

    Once again, Thanks for any help.