I cant even get to the store page. If I do get into the launcher it just has an “issue with agent” error. I tried a bunch of different runners, one did work I cant remember which one. Still trying a few workarounds.
Hey. Probs with Linux Mint (21.3 & 22.1) here too. While is was playing (3 hours ago) the Game freezes. One Minute later i "xkill"ed it. After this the same as by blackPhillip. Except my Battlenet freezes after a few seconds. I checked my Hardware. All seems to be fine with my PC. In the next Step i tried a Rollback with Timeshift. But the Probs are still there. So i installed Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. Here is the 45% Prob during the Installation-Process. I tried Flatpak and System-Version… 
Similar issue with the freezing. Had a freeze mid-game. Then bnet was hanging and acting funny. Reinstalling is hit or miss depending on how you do it, sometimes it hangs at 45% installing the .exe directly through steam does not have this issue. But all issues past that persist.
The battlenet Agent is having issues communicating with their servers. There was a similar issue sometime ago I read about on reddit.
Nothing new to add but a +1 here. Pop OS 22.04, wine 10 stable, bnet worked fine 2 days ago but is giving me the “Agent Asleep Trying to Wake It” message (BLZBNTBNA00000005).
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling and, as above, the process stalled and then failed at 45%.
Sad, that Darcraft isn’t gonna play itself!
Got the same problem, PopOS 22.04, on both deb and Flatpak version.
I fixed it following this Reddit comment : https://www.reddit.com/r/Lutris/comments/1kbx0lq/comment/mpyn0oo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Hope it helps
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That fixed it!!
To save everyone else the click, here’s the fix:
- Install protonplus (flatpak app)
- Launch protonplus and select lutris in the left hand panel
- Locate wine versions, select wine staging tkg (kron4ek)
- Download the 10.6 version
- Once it has extracted, make sure lutris is not running and launch lutris.
- Right click bnet entry → configure → runner options tab → wine version and select the wine-staging 10.6 tkg version from the list → save and press play. DO NOT INSTALL MONO IF IT PROMPTS YOU!!!
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I can now start the game, but something is wrong the mouse …
It is just a normal Ubuntu cursor ingame, and I can’t click anywhere.
edit: Fixed the mouse problem by running in Virtual Desktop mode
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Same here, Launcher errors out when trying to update WoW Retail.
Once this popps, the entire Launcher just freezes.
actual workaround for Battle.Net:
Install Wine Staging 10.6 tkg with ProtonPlus Install ProtonPlus on Linux | Flathub
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Thanks that helped. Simply get Wine 10.6. With Arch Linux, just update & reboot the System, then select System (10.6) as Wine version within Lutris.
Edit: Well too early the good news. Game is now windowed mode and UI elements are shifted upwards (text outside of the buttons).
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You installed the exact “Wine staging 10.6 TKG” version?
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So! Game runs now. I use atm Wine Staging 10.6 tkg with ProtonPlus and by Gameoptions: /home/i/Games/battlenet/drive_c/Battle.net-Setup.exe
Thx very much 
Confirm working on Fedora 42, Lutris 0.5.19.
Install ProtonPlus Flatpak
In protonplus select “Lutris”, Wine, Win-Staging-Tkg, install version 10.6
Launch Lutris, Rightclick configure your BattleNet
Setting Runner options “Wine version” to “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” and hit cancel on Mono install
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Hello can confirm for Ubuntu 25.04, Bottles not launching battle net since today with Soda 9.01 but following the the above, with Wine staging 10.6 TKG it runs . But I no longer have Gsync, not on wayland nor X11 with the Gsync indicator on… Anyone got a clue?
Thank you
Can confirm installing “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” helped launch Battle.net for me as well on Ubuntu 25.04.
Anyone launching into a black screen about half the time though? Usually have to close Battle.net and launch again and it usually works then.
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If you have steam, you can upgrade inside stream proton experimental, and then run inside lutris by proton experimental runner, and should work.
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Boy am I glad this thread exists.
Working on Linux Mint 22.1, using the “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” in Lutris worked like a charm.
I typically launch from Steam, and using proton experimental worked there as well.
I switched proton versions back and forth and the GE version (9-27) simply no longer works for me even after updating with experimental (Agent went to sleep error), so experimental it is for the foreseeable future. Thanks everyone
Worked perfectly so far. I deleted Battlenet and Wow so I had to reinstall. I was able to install Battlenet with no issue and of course, it crashed when I tried to open it. I then applied your solution. Battlenet came up perfectly and I was able to install WoW itself. I went into game for a few minutes and everything seemed to work well. I’ll have to play for a while of course just to judge stability but so far so great. Thank you for your help!
This worked like a charm! Thank you!
Can confirm that “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” work. If it not work or do something strange maybe you use the 10.6 without tkg in the name.