Dumb Steam/Proton/Wine/Linux Tricks For Battle.net/WoW

Having trouble running battle.net in Linux using Steam/Proton? Try setting Steam to run the battle.net installer from say ~/Documents every time with the bnet install location as the working dir. This is basically using the installer as the launcher. It finds a local copy of bnet already installed so it runs that. Quick, easy, keeps it updated too. I use this on both Arch, Fedora, and my Steam Deck. 

WoW WTF In Git

Since I've started playing WoW again and doing a bit of multiboxing I figured out that keeping my WoW WTF folder in a Git repo is very handy. The WTF folder holds things like keybinds, window layouts, UI data, and addon data. 

With this setup I can use scripts and other tools to automatically make changes to my WTF files without fear of messing anything up in an irreparable way. Plus I can easily see changes to files and such. All it takes is a "git init" and then "git commit" after I run WoW or make any manual/scripted changes. 

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