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[-] franzcoz@feddit.cl 42 points 1 month ago

I never managed to run an application usinng bottles :/

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

I used it for non-steam games for a while because Lutris is a broken mess

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I don't think I've installed a single game that I didn't have to fight with for hours to fix the install script

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Same here. I run apps in Heroic games launcher

[-] SeekPie 3 points 1 month ago

I use Steam by adding apps as non-steam games and forcing it to use Proton.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Another option. lol

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I'm using bottles to run Roon. Works great and was easy.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

How much development is actually needed to build a graphical interface for setting the WINEPREFIX environment variable?

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it's running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

They use GitHub for the code already. Their hosting cost could be pretty much zero if they would use GitHub Pages for their website, and redirect their domain to that.

[-] FurryMemesAccount 4 points 1 month ago

I think they host wine/proton releases at least, maybe more

[-] khorovodoved@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Which can be hosted on GitHub as well.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I never understood the advantage Bottles has over Lutris

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

It's not a catch-all game launcher.

It's a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.

It's basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.

Running windows games is just one use-case.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, same with Lutris. You don't HAVE to run games in it, it works just as well with other software

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it's meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.

Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn't as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 month ago

I see the advantages that.

  • Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)

  • Sandboxed (Only flatpak)

[-] priapus@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Better UI and many of the tools for managing wine prefixes are higher quality, rather than relying on something like Winetricks, which is actually a 20000 line bash script.

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

pick your compatibility poison I guess, the ubiquitous shell or 10-15GB of flatpak dependencies

[-] priapus@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I use the Nix package, so neither. Although I also use flatpaks for other stuff so I doubt it would require many dependencies I'm not already using.

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Gtk on Gnome vs Qt on Kde. I tried bottles. it’s fine. I can live without it given we now have a decent Lutris and Heroic

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I thought their priority was vanilla OS. I hope that project has the cash to survive too

[-] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I use Bottles daily and just made a donation two days ago :)

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