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no it isn't.

• Animats 3y ago
  It's basically a thing to load up Wine with the DLLs and tweaks for a specific program, right? That's what Winetricks does.
  • coconut08 3y ago
    they do not use winetricks. they built their own system for installing dependencies and managing prefixes. you are right that it fills the same role, but that's not what you asked. it also does a lot more than just the things that winetricks does.
  • mhitza 3y ago
    Haven't used winetricks in what feels like 10+ years, but as I recall it only dealt with a single wine prefix (~/.wine most likely). Bottles are namespaced prefixes (usually one for each application installed this way). I don't know in practice how much that is needed in wine in order to avoid one "trick" interfering with another "trick" for another app. However, makes it easier to remove the extra cruft of uninstalled applications (like the dozen variants of the .net runtime, or whatever else it was that you had to install ad-nauseum in the past for some windows apps/games).
    • heavyset_go 3y ago
      winetricks can use multiple prefixes, it asks you at launch which prefix to use, or whether to create new ones.