5d ago

Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

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5d ago

Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

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I never managed to run an application usinng bottles :/
- Same here. I run apps in Heroic games launcher
  
  I use Steam by adding apps as non-steam games and forcing it to use Proton.
- I used it for non-steam games for a while because Lutris is a broken mess
  
  huh. what breaks for you in lutris? i works pretty well for me.
- I'm using bottles to run Roon. Works great and was easy.

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

I never understood the advantage Bottles has over Lutris
- Lutris is for managing games, and can use multiple different engines. Proton is one, but also Linux native games, dos, ScummVM, etc. Lutris also interfaces with popular stores like Steam, Epic, GOG etc. It's a game and gaming library tool.
  Bottles is a general purpose wrapper for Wine. You can run games but also any wine software. It's a general purpose wine tool.
  Lutris makes running games in proton easy. Bottles makes running apps in wine easy.
  
  Does lutris support advanced configuration of disabling enabling dxvk ,switch of locales,easy tool to install windows dependencies for usual software not games,creating full prefix backup and restoring it later on other devices ,controlling environment variables?
  
  But you can simply add windows software to Lutris, a lot of it can be found in the database with all the artwork etc.
- 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.
  
  Yeah, same with Lutris. You don't HAVE to run games in it, it works just as well with other software
- 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.
  
  pick your compatibility poison I guess, the ubiquitous shell or 10-15GB of flatpak dependencies
- 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
- I see the advantages that.
  Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)
  Sandboxed (Only flatpak)
- Looks pretty