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Bottles app for running Windows apps / games on Linux gets NGI Zero Commons funding
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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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It’s far more flexible, but yes.
Heroic and Lutris have strong opinions and narrow, focused use-cases. Bottles is really just a generic, all purpose GUI for easily managing the underlying CLI tools. It’s the next best thing to directly using Wine on the command line.
It's not just a prefix manager. Bottles also provides a more predictable runtime environment using Flatpak sandboxing (it uses its own libraries instead of whatever's installed on the system), and is specifically developed with that in mind.