Today on Me or Linux?
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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 crate 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???
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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 crate 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???
Uh.
When you used Lutris to install WoW, which directory did you used as the destination?
Check the permissions of the wow install directory, did you run perhaps Lutris as root and as such is only writeable from root?
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Uh.
When you used Lutris to install WoW, which directory did you used as the destination?
Check the permissions of the wow install directory, did you run perhaps Lutris as root and as such is only writeable from root?
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But you did read, right? Linux allows you to kill itself without batting an eye...
How did you start Lutris? Did it asked you for your password?
What are the actual permissions of your wow directory? Who is the owner?
What is the Data Partition you've mentioned and how does it differ from other partitions Bazzit created?
Also can you just run battle.net from Lutris and thus run wow?
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But you did read, right? Linux allows you to kill itself without batting an eye...
How did you start Lutris? Did it asked you for your password?
What are the actual permissions of your wow directory? Who is the owner?
What is the Data Partition you've mentioned and how does it differ from other partitions Bazzit created?
Also can you just run battle.net from Lutris and thus run wow?
I actaully installed it.
AFAIK You can't "run" battlenet though lutris, it needs installed for mods at least.
The "data" partition turned to actually be a windows partition, there isn't any indication that isn't paart of Linux that I could.
I was able to create a "games" folder under my user's "home" folder and install battlenet (and Wow) there, So I hoping I can then copy my mods over.
To be continued...
thanks for your help
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I actaully installed it.
AFAIK You can't "run" battlenet though lutris, it needs installed for mods at least.
The "data" partition turned to actually be a windows partition, there isn't any indication that isn't paart of Linux that I could.
I was able to create a "games" folder under my user's "home" folder and install battlenet (and Wow) there, So I hoping I can then copy my mods over.
To be continued...
thanks for your help
You can write to any folder in
/varand/etc(/homeis actually a symlink to/var/home).Bazzite is atomic, and you can't just install whatever you want wherever you want like a traditional distro. It sounds like you're making directories in your home folder, so you should be fine to set everything up there, as long as Lutris knows that's where the wine prefix is and your game knows where to find the mods.
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You can write to any folder in
/varand/etc(/homeis actually a symlink to/var/home).Bazzite is atomic, and you can't just install whatever you want wherever you want like a traditional distro. It sounds like you're making directories in your home folder, so you should be fine to set everything up there, as long as Lutris knows that's where the wine prefix is and your game knows where to find the mods.
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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 crate 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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