BlizzNux has two kinds of content, and it is worth knowing which is which.
Updates are automated
The threads at the top of the front page are posted by a bot. It watches the things that actually break Blizzard games on Linux and posts when one of them changes:
- Proton, Proton-GE and Proton-CachyOS releases
- Wine, Mesa, DXVK and vkd3d-proton releases
- NVIDIA driver releases
- Blizzard game builds, read from Blizzard's own version service — when a build number changes, the game patched
- ProtonDB rating changes, where a rating exists
- BlizzNux Launcher releases, with the full release notes
Every one of those posts carries a line saying it is a change notification and not a compatibility test. The bot has no graphics card. It never launches a game. It only notices that something moved.
Reports are not
Whether a game actually runs is answered by people: in threads here, and through the BlizzNux Launcher, which reports each launch and game run when its user has turned sharing on. Those reports are the only thing the Compatibility board on the front page counts — every number on it is people who ran that exact build. That is the part of this site with any value, and it is the part a machine watching feeds cannot produce.
This matters more here than on most sites, because for most of these games there is no automated compatibility data anywhere. ProtonDB is sourced from Steam, and only Diablo IV, Diablo II: Resurrected and Overwatch 2 are published there. World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, StarCraft: Remastered, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III and Warcraft III have no rating at all — not here, not anywhere. What gets reported here is the only record.
The tags
Every thread you start gets one primary tag, for what kind of thread it is:
- General — reports of what you ran, questions, and everything else
- Distros and Drivers — kernel, Mesa, NVIDIA, distro packaging
Two more are written by the site itself:
- Updates — automated, upstream changes only
- Meta — this thread, and anything about the site itself
Then up to three game tags for what it is about. Battle.net launcher is one of them, because the client breaks independently of every game it installs, and BlizzNux Launcher is for the launcher itself.
Where to start
The wiki has the commands that produce the details a report needs, a plain description of what Proton, Wine, DXVK and the rest actually are, and how the compatibility board counts.
