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More fitting title would be "Easily manage wineprefix using environments" or "Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way" as this is just using Wine, which is wha
by capableweb 5y ago
More fitting title would be "Easily manage wineprefix using environments" or "Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way" as this is just using Wine, which is what actually does the "Run Windows software and games on Linux" (current title) part.
If anyone has experience, and since the repository doesn't mention it, how is Bottles different from let's say Lutris, Q4Wine and PlayOnLinux that already exists and does something similar?
- azalemeth 5y agoI find the lutris is actually a pretty excellent experience. Most games have a method to install themselves with it, it integrates nicely with my gog library, and it really does just work. You can edit the prefix dosdevices to deny access to the filesystem outside of the prefix.
- WaxProlix 5y agoIt's a little "cleaner" than Lutris, but lacks the ecosystem of init scripts afaict.
- capableweb 5y ago"Cleaner" in what way? The UI? The workflow? How it deals with things on disk? Resource-usage-wise?
- WaxProlix 5y agoUI, and the way it presents options for your various wine settings (imo).
- outworlder 5y agoNot everyone understands what a 'wineprefix' even is.
- Normal_gaussian 5y agoFurther to the point, I would hazard that the majority of linux users don't use wine because its too complex to justify the effort. Very few users for this want to know how they would configure wine to do the same thing, they just want to 'run windows software and games on linux'.
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 5y agoI don't use Wine as there is no hole in my software landscape that an exclusively Windows application will fill.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoThis. I've been using Linux for years, and the last time I had to mess with Wine prefixes I was super confused and it ended up not working (of course). :p CrossOver and Proton ftw.
- tvb12 5y agoI do the opposite, but for the exact same reason. I couldn't figure out how to use Lutris at all when I first installed Linux, but I happened upon a very detailed guide for setting up a wine prefix (it's just a folder) for the game I was installing. Now when I install a new game I mostly just scroll back through my shell history to see what I did back then. I just opened Lutris for the first time since then and I think I can see how to use it now. But I'll probably stick to my current ways because it works and really all of it's a pain anyway. Lutris is still invaluable for peeking through the installer scripts, though.
- 0x6c6f6c 5y agoThat's fair. But even the quick description of the project is "Easily manage wineprefix using environments".
- DoctorOW 5y agoI feel like if this were targeted at everyone it would link to the marketing website or an article rather than the Github process. A bit of technical knowledge is a fair expectation for the Linux Hacker News audience.
- gpderetta 5y agoAFAIK "bottle" is just a commonly used alias for a wine prefix. It predates this project.