Wondering if anyone can tell me how to get the official OSRS client up and running in Linux (Ubuntu). I’m not interested in using RuneLite.
Steam and proton is what i do.
That’s strange, the Snap package I used seems to be gone. It was one of the best examples of a Snap that functioned reasonably well. It still works fine for me. I see another package on there for just OSRS, but no idea how well it works.
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Runescape officially supports linux (Ubuntu)
Taken from the official site 
sudo -s -- << EOF
wget -O - https://content.runescape.com/downloads/ubuntu/runescape.gpg.key | apt-key add -
mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb https://content.runescape.com/downloads/ubuntu trusty non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/runescape.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -y runescape-launcher
EOF
Ubuntu Trusty, I’m pretty sure that was from before they made the NXT client. I believe they are making more changes and that probably has to do with why they have taken down the snap. I was about to say it still works for me but I guess that has changed since last week:
Due to the upcoming mandatory usage of the Jagex Launcher, this snap is now unsupported.
Please remove this snap with the command
sudo snap remove runescape --purge
Whilst the Jagex launcher is not mandatory, you can revert to a working version of this snap with
sudo snap revert runescape
Once the launcher is mandatory, you will not be able to login to OSRS or RS3.Jagex’s advice is to run the Jagex Launcher through Wine.
There’s no reason to believe there’ll be a native Linux RS3 client when the launcher becomes mandatory.
Long term, it’s also likely that Java support for OSRS will be removed, in favour of the C++ OSRS client based on the existing RS3 client; effecting e.g RuneLite.Running the clients via Proton/Steam could be a solution for people with only one player character.
For everyone else, you’ll have to install the launcher through Wine in the next few weeks, swap operating system, or stop playing.