League of Linux

The Kbin experiment was ultimately brief as we all meet the same fate in the end, thanks Riot.

Similar to the subreddit, this magazine will stay open until the Vanguard patch hits, then shortly after it's confirmed and we've said our goodbyes, it'll be restricted to read-only to preserve history.

A few days ago, I made a ticket on riot support asking some questions about Vanguard on LoL. I will post Linux related questions in this post. The full questions and answers will be in the comments.

TLDR: Vanguard is not coming to MacOS (implied in answer, ~~awaiting confirmation~~ Confirmed, Vanguard is not needed to play LoL on MacOS), Riot doesn't know whether unofficial Linux support through proton will continue. Get your Darling ready!

Q: LoL currently works fine on Linux under proton, but with the proposed changes, LoL will stop working on Linux. Although Riot has stated that they probably will never natively support Linux, Riot has worked with the Linux community in the past to make LoL function under proton. Does Riot plan on continuing this line of communication with the Linux community to attempt to bring Vanguard to Linux as well (maybe not natively), or will Riot cease to support LoL on Linux at all? (even unofficially?)

A: As far as Linux goes, virtual machines have almost never been a supported practice as far as we know, and they're known to cause crashes and issues in general. The only support was the one you mentioned - proton, and we can't say for certain whether or not it will be a continued one.

Q: There is currently a version of LoL for MacOS, but Vanguard is currently unavailable for MacOS (Riot’s reason for why Valorant is not supported on MacOS), what does Riot plan to do about this (Will Vanguard be coming to MacOS)?

A: Players using Mac will still be accountable for cheating, getting account bans if detected (but not hardware bans), and they’ll also experience match terminations if someone else is detected.

Riot just officially announced vanguard would be coming to league in the next few weeks. It was fun while it lasted. Good luck out there summoner.

Hi, I didn't personally figure out that Lutris had this option until doing this myself, so I figured I would try to share.

I've had guides try to get me to patch in wine installs manually through terminal commands and shifting folders around, but Lutris actually has a built-in feature to fetch and install runners a bit hidden in the GUI.

If you refer to the image I uploaded, you can see the basic Lutris in the background, I've circled the area you need to go to on the left. The "Wine" category, when you hover it, will have a little box and a gear. If you click on the box, it will bring up the menu in the foreground. It will have listings of all sorts of runners you can install for usage in Lutris. No fiddling required. Install wine-ge-lol-8-27 from here for the as of current most recent League fix.

When you have this installed, you can close this menu, and change your league runner to it. All done. If you don't know how to do this, these are the steps:

• click League of Legends in Lutris
• on the bottom left, next to the play button, click the up arrow just to the right of it
• click "Configure"
• in the top menus, click "Runner options"
• the first option should be "Wine version", click this and find your newly installed wine-ge-lol-8-27-x86_64
• click the green "Save" in the top right

And you should be good to go! This updates your league runner to the current stable version without having to reinstall or mess with the terminal. I hope this was helpful to anybody out there and not just obvious to everyone hahah.

Hey all! League of Legends is currently playable on Linux thanks to wine-ge-lol-8-27.
This version of wine is available on Lutris and all of the installer scripts available have been updated to use it. I removed and installed the game again, just to be safe, and it works perfectly for me on Debian 12 except for usual slow client.

Quick guide:

1. Open Lutris
2. Remove League of Legends (Right click the game's icon -> "Remove")
3. Install the game again following the usual instructions. (Choose the right script for your region, do not log in before the first download finishes and you reopen the game, etc.)
   And, well, granted the game already worked for you before the disaster, you should be good to go!

As for the Reddit Megathread, it hasn't been updated since November 24th, that's more than a month ago. This version of wine is available since December 14th.
It's very misleading that both our website (the first result on Google for "League of legends on Linux"), which links to the Megathread on the status page, still claims that the game is unplayable on Linux.
I myself took a week or so to notice that the game is working, but some people even got banned for using the wrong package and a big "Hey guys DON'T use wine-lol-staging from the AUR, it's getting people banned!!! Permanently!!!!!" on the Megathread would at least have stopped more people from using it at the time. PLEASE update it.

We even have an active Discord server now (I'm not sure I'm allowed to link it here), which is how I got to know and understand most of this.

So, here's an open letter to acenomad/TheAcenomad (from what I could gather, they're the only owner and moderator):

I've defended the move to Kbin with other comments I've made in other threads, and frankly, I'm embarrassed about it, because right after that, you have been silent, inactive both on Reddit and here on Kbin. You even wrote the following on the Megathread:

A further more detailed announcement will follow as well as the eventual full reopening of the subreddit.

But so far, nothing.

League of Legends is one of the most played games in the world, and thus, a huge barrier of entry for new desktop Linux users is information on how to make it work, or if it can even work at all (gamers are a huge portion of desktop PC users).

No shame if you want to move on from this community; we all move on from some of our interests. But if that's the case, please let people that care take over, or alternatively, engage with the community and help valuable information be more easily spread, like we thought you were gonna do with the updates.

I would have loved it you took the move to Kbin seriously, because I still believe in the protest's objectives, but it seems like you have just bailed out on difficult times for the community.
Given the circumstances, I suggest updating the website, updating the Megathread, reopening the subreddit, and bringing in new mods.

If this continues, the community will just create another subreddit, and maybe that would be for the better, but it would be a shame to see this one go down like this.

Then again, maybe you just actually died. I hope not, but you know, peace.

Have a nice day, y'all.

LoL is playable again with Wine-GE-Proton8-26-LoL on patch 13.24, but most of the time I experience some kind of visual stutter or sluggishness. I'm always at my 240fps cap with my 60Hz monitor, but it feels like 20-30fps for the most part, some moments are very smooth. I tried to switch borderless/fullscreen, lower graphics settings to minimum, change to vsync, pc restart, no change has impact. Ingame fps counter and MangoHUD say 240fps (or 60 with vsync). Nvidia RTX3070 with latest linux driver 545.29.06.
Are you experiencing the same problem or is it just me?

• Still RC, so if it doesn't work, please report it there
• Supposed to be applicable to all distros and install methods (Lutris, script,...)
• Some report issues, most say it's working fine.

Thanks for all your patience, don't go back! We got this together!! Never Windows!

Edit: Tested it, works!

sad

this post links to the forum thread, fingers crossed this helps them debug! send your logs that way if you can.

thankful to the rioters who take personal time to fix riot's bugs to help us out!

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The mods permanently shut down the subreddit, and yet the new website hasn't been worked on in 3 months (per gitlab commit history). There are several pages on the site that are still blank. I'm glad we can rebuild here, but so much important information is lost by closing the subreddit permanently and not offering an alternative. Not just the wiki, but the numerous Q&A posts, too. I and many others are trying to get LoL working via Lutris and the only resources I have are a half-complete wiki (leagueoflinux.org) and the Kbin which has like 10 posts and 10 comments total. Does anyone else feel like we are kinda being left out to dry at this point?