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Bottles is essentially a frontend for Wine, it lets you put every single app to its own WINEPREFIX, so that each one can have their own settings, C: drive, etc.
by kuylar 10mo ago
Bottles is essentially a frontend for Wine, it lets you put every single app to its own WINEPREFIX, so that each one can have their own settings, C: drive, etc.
If you've heard of Lutris, Bottles is essentially the same thing, but aimed at general software instead of only focusing on games
- mijoharas 10mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894878
- aniviacat 10mo agoI use Bottles regularly and really like it. There's nothing groundbreaking about it, but it's a straightforward way to run apps with Wine with an intuitive and pretty interface. (They're currently working on a 2.0 release, though that's probably gonna take a while.)
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo agoNice, using home-brew style incomprehensible nomenclature
- Asooka 10mo agoWell, things have to be named something. At least "Bottles" are related to "Wine" in a way that makes sense for a name for isolated Wine environments. It is also unique enough that Google will give you the answer quickly.