Quote Originally Posted by s32ialx View Post
There is a way to play XIV with a 3rd party launcher on linux without steam.
This here is currently the answer, and NOT Lutris, if you also want to run something else (wink) alongside XIV. It's a flawless setup and Lutris installing it as a flatpak is just ass. The native client runs on Lutris great. 3rd party does not and should be done another way.

I play on Mint (not LMDE) only because LMDE doesn't have all the dependencies needed to play games. I'd prefer Debian based flavors because I'm a Debian fan, but the Fedora and Ubuntu versions seem to be a lot less of a headache for gaming. Arch based are great too, but I just have so much heartache with Wayland (thanks Nvidia, you suck) and I don't know the commands in Arch like I do others. I know Wayland is coming to replace X11, and hopefully my woes will be fixed when it does.