Bottles is a GPL3 licensed, amazing tool to use in Linux operating systems that support flatpaks. It allows one to interface with Wine without having to tinker with complicated prefixes and possibly polluting your file system and packages.

If a video game you want to play is not available on Steam's DRM store or you have a local copy of it, you can easily use Bottles to be able to run those games and integrate them into your desktop.

Flathub store page: https://flathub.org/apps/com.usebottles.bottles
Source repository: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles


*Winblows games that refuse to run under WINE are not included.

  • jaeme
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    10 months ago

    Lutris is good if you enjoy using the runners and install scripts (and are already invested in Lutris). But I think bottles has a simpler interface (using and installing) for new users and the project is in very active development compared to Lutris. Plus it integrates really well with the GNOME desktop.

    Wine also works on MacOS and the BSDs. It's not just Linux.

    Whoops, forgot about that. Thanks for pointing that out.