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.

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Very interesting! Though I will say that Proton (Valve's custom build of wine) works on non steam games as well.

    • jaeme
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      It does! In bottles you can add Wine-Proton-GE as your wine version from the user interface or from ProtonUp-Qt

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Some games may require minor tweaks which may require you to download a bunch of files outside of steam. It’s why I prefer to have launchers that use Proton but also gives you a menu of options and features rather than having me search for them one by one