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Steam, wine and dosbox with them, you can effectively play any game worth playing. Beyond that I never needed to know.
Really? Try installing Battlenet or Hearthstone with Wine.
I do like to play hots or d2 from time to time 😅
Don’t have any games that require those. So never ran into that problem. But I can imagine there are potential games/apps people would want that can’t run on Linux. Windows VMs might be a solution but I don’t know as I never had to deal with that.
I've played a lot of Battle net games by installing battle net in lutris, then installing the game I want to play there. There's a lot of scripts you can find for installing particular games. I can't speak for whether HOTS works, but I played many many hours of WoW and Overwatch (before 2) that way. It's annoying using a launcher to run a launcher to play your game, but it works.
Yeah, I think I need to investigate proton and wine? 😅