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0·2 months agoThat’s awesome to hear! I’m glad that got it running.
If you haven’t used heroic before it will also let you pull your libraries from Amazon, GOG and Epic if you use any of them.
As someone who keeps the battle.net launcher around for StarCraft 1 & 2, I’ve seen my fair share of issues with Lutris. For the longest time I was able to run the StarCraft games and Overwatch without problems. Over the last few years though, I’ve encountered random issues where I can’t get it running again.
Rather than keep messing with Lutris, on my current install (Bazzite), I installed the Heroic launcher and did a manual install for battle.net. You can choose multiple wine versions or even Proton if you prefer. I have not had any issues with either the launcher or StarCraft games since. Good chance it may allow you to run WoW too.
Good luck!
You’re probably going to find that the terminal will come up at some point no matter what version of Linux you choose.
For most I would recommend Mint, but since you mentioned having a negative experience previously, perhaps Zorin OS would be a better alternative?
If you want a hardened OS that would be difficult to break, an immutable OS may be a better route for you. Here’s a link with some options to choose from. My recommendation would be Fedora Silverblue.
As someone else mentioned, you will still need to use a password when making changes to the system. You can set it to boot without a password if you prefer to. I use Bazzite (gaming focused immutable OS; based on Fedora Silverblue) and I want to say 90% of the time I only need my password at boot.
If you need office apps, LibreOffice and Open Office should do what you need. MS office can be a challenge to get running, but the online web versions will run out of the box.
Hope that helps!