Bottles, an open-source tool built on Wine that lets users run Windows applications and games on Linux with a user-friendly GUI, has released version 63.0.
This update addresses several stability issues. It resolves a crash caused by zero-byte ghost files and fixes an interface freeze during app installation. Issues with missing executable paths and icons have also been corrected.
Flatpak integration has been enhanced as well with more reliable availability checks for extensions, including Gamescope, MangoHud, and OBS.
Proxy support has been added for downloads, allowing Bottles to operate in restricted or proxied network setups. Plus, the application now automatically manages manually added fonts at startup.
Desktop integration has been improved with more reliable desktop entries and Steam shortcuts. Command-line launching is now fixed by resolving an issue with shlex.quote in the terminal handling code.
Additional updates include alphabetical sorting of the bottles list, improved registry backup handling by ignoring temporary files, and fixes for ICO to PNG conversion. Translations have also been updated.
For more details, see the changelog.
I haven’t understood yet how to use Bottles or Lutris properly.
They seem rather difficult so far to me. I prefer the double click approach and for that I’ve only been using PortProton and Wine. If I can’t get something to work through PortProton via double click, I consider it impossible to run and move on.
The way I understand Bottles is that it creates containers for each program with specific settings, but last time I tried it, I had some trouble navigating the UI or getting anything done. What I also found out is it creates each container with a different Wine instance, so the whole thing ends up using a lot of space, too much for me to give, not that my 1TB is full, rather, I just don’t want to dedicate so much space to Bottles when I can achieve almost the same withPortProton that requires much less space and only becomes larger when you download a new Wine/Proton to run something.