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Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by pmarreck »

mordae wrote: post #22

Just use Lutris. It can fetch various flavours of wine and manage your bottles. https://lutris.net/

I don’t know if I’m an outlier as an NVidia guy, but my frank experience is that Lutris is a janky PoS on any distro I’ve ever tried it on (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch, NixOS)

Everything I haven’t gotten to work in Lutris has worked in Steam Proton by importing it as a non-Steam game. With far less hassle.

Since Lutris predates Steam Proton and thus likely suffers as a result, I think it’s no longer necessary if you are a Steam user.

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by bentcorner »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #36
greenknight wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if they didnt know about codeweavers using the name? Wine goes into bottles (in the real world)... its a play on words.

Almost anyone using Wine is familiar with the term and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.

I've known about wine for years and literally only learned that CrossOver exists this morning on HN in the steamdeck thread.

> and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.

To clarify, what do you mean by this? Does CodeWeavers use the term "Wine" somewhere in a product? (I thought that's CrossOver?)

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by pmarreck »

pitaj wrote: post #76
codingcarpenter wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly proton is really all you need at this point. I've completely switched over to Linux and have had absolutely zero problems. How Linux mint even found all of my drivers for me it took literally no effort. That being said you can always check proton db to see if your games work with it

One exception is online multiplayer, which you'll still need a true Windows for.

Depends on the game, and the anti-cheat software it uses.

EAC for Linux works

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by kator »

bimguy wrote: post #65
lockhouse wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks awesome! Is there anything like that for Mac?

CrossOver

+1 I use CrossOver, I bought the lifetime license to support them since they also upstream crazy stuff like running 32bit Windows EXE in MacOS etc.

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by whateveracct »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #36
greenknight wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if they didnt know about codeweavers using the name? Wine goes into bottles (in the real world)... its a play on words.

Almost anyone using Wine is familiar with the term and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.

I'm not enough to know they used "bottles"

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by mikrotikker »

codingcarpenter wrote: post #50
marinhero wrote: post #44

I only use Windows because of gaming purposes. Is there anything around the internet that can show benchmarks for something like Bottles vs Proton vs Windows? WSL works well but I’d personally want to stay stick to native and not dual boot.

Honestly proton is really all you need at this point. I've completely switched over to Linux and have had absolutely zero problems. How Linux mint even found all of my drivers for me it took literally no effort. That being said you can always check proton db to see if your games work with it

Same, it really is amazing coming from the days of using Lokis and WineX and Wine trying to make things work. It was often a struggle but still some triple A games would work out of the box back then, COD1+2, quake 4 had a linux installer, MoH: Pacific Assault.
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