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    Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles (usebottles.com)
    59 points by doener - 4 days ago

  • Interesting. The UI looks way better than Lutris and Heroic Launcher. Anyone tried all three of them and went with Bottles? I first tried Lutris and then switched to Heroic, but I am not too keen about Electron apps, although Heroic works quite well.
    by hrvstr - 3 days ago
  • Is this some form of wine-wrapping? Or do these people code the windows emulation themselves?

    All of these on-top-of-wine solutions are always a cat and mouse chase when a game or app is updated. You end up with several days to weeks and sometimes eternity to get some configuration fix

    by Crackula - 4 hours ago
  • Zoltan has you beat. Fresh install if Zoltan runs directx installer ( dxdiag runs perfectly ) and so does Dungeon Siege - Legends of Aranna. Perfectly. Better than windows 10. It's not listed on Bottles, so I will check back in 6 months.
    by ForOldHack - 4 hours ago
  • I dunno ablut easily. If you just have some random exe installer Bottles is not super helpful. Probably easier if your software is in the Bottles catalogue.
    by tormeh - 3 hours ago
  • is there somewhere a more technical description? I want to know about the technology stack before I install software which uses up several 100 MB
    by wolfi1 - 3 hours ago
  • "easily" until you update wine and then nothing works anymore :)
    by guappa - 3 hours ago
  • I don't understand any of these "bottle" solutions. All they're doing is running Wine. You can already run Wine without any of this.
    by BugsJustFindMe - 2 hours ago
  • > Run Windows in a Bottle. Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!

    What does it even mean?

    Is it somehow related to Gnome Boxes?

    by self_awareness - 2 hours ago

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