How do I install Starcraft, and Warcraft 3 on Linux Pop OS

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find my installation CD. If you could post some screenshots of the errors you get I can try to help.

Since I switched to Kubuntu in June, 2022, I have found only a tiny handful of windows games or programs that I absolutely couldn’t get to work. The one I was most disappointed in was CorelDraw, which apparently is virtually impossible to get to work in Linux. However, I was able to switch over to Inkscape to replace it, so it wasn’t a big loss.

I’ve learned that between WINE, and Steam with Proton, I can get pretty much every Windows program to work, including both games and other software. For example, I had some trouble with Goldwave audio editor using WINE, so I added the Goldwave setup file to Steam, changed the compatibility to Proton Experimental, and it works from Steam with virtually no issues.

In most cases I can find Linux-native Free/Open Source alternatives to Windows programs and I use them wherever possible (GIMP, Inkscape, Libreoffice, Scribus, Kate, XNView, FIlezilla, Simplescreenrecorder, Shotcut, etc.). My biggest concern when switching was if the games would work, because that was the only thing holding me onto Windows for years. When Valve decided to create the Steam Deck, they had a vested interest in getting as many games as possible to work in Linux because that’s what the Steam Deck uses. So they made a fork of WINE called Proton and pretty much anything I can’t get to work with WINE, I can get to work with Proton.

There are only 2 games I have had major issues with, which are Demigod and Europa Universalis 3. But every other Steam or GOG game I’ve tried has worked with either no or virtually no issues. Most have no issues at all. This includes all of the Witcher games, Mount & Blade II, Solasta, all of the Total War Warhammer & historical games, Mechwarrior 5, Planet Zoo, Horizon Zero Dawn, Skyrim, Ark: Survival Evolved, all the Mass Effect games (Legendary edition), No One Lives Forever, and many others.

You can check the compatibility of pretty much everything with https://www.protondb.com/ and https://appdb.winehq.org/.

I’ve even been able to run some ancient DOS stuff with DOSBox with no problems at all.

Unfortunately, I haven’t tried installing anything from physical disks which is why it’s hard for me to help with that.

I would never switch back to Windows at this point. Linux is completely free, doesn’t have ads or spy on you, doesn’t force you to update anything, and just leaves you alone to do what you want. The KDE desktop is amazing, and has so many customization features. Windows was like a prison for me, and I felt like a victim using it, not a user.

The way you uninstall it depends on exactly how you installed it. You mentioned that you downloaded an installation program from the website. What is the extension of the file? Possibly .deb? “Pop! OS” is a fork of Ubuntu, which is a fork of Debian. Because if that, most programs are installed either through apt (for repository packages) or dpkg (for .deb files). There are also other types of files and other programs, but those are some of the most common.

Also, are you familiar with sudo? It’s a program that lets you run a program as a “super user” (sudo is a program and the name is short for “super user do”). It is used for doing system-wide changes. In most Linux distributions you have to use sudo to install or uninstall a program on the system. So frequently to install something you’ll type something like:

sudo apt-get install <package_name>

or

sudo dpkg -i my_install_file.deb

In each case, sudo will prompt you to enter the root password, or the password of a user in the “super user” group. Your user account likely is already in that group. To remove a program you would do something like:

sudo apt-get remove <package_name>

or

sudo dpkg -r my_install_file.deb