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Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux

Bottles

Easily manage wineprefix using environments

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📚 Documentation

Before opening a new issue, check if the topic has already been covered in our documentation.

Please note that some pages of the documentation are still being written.

🗣 Help Bottles speak your language

Read here how to translate Bottles in your language or how to help improve existing ones.

🦾 Features

• Create bottles based on environments (a set of rules and dependencies)
• Access to a customizable environment for all your experiments
• Run every executable (.exe/.msi/.bat) in your bottles, using the context menu in your file manager
• Integrated management and storage for executable file arguments
• Support for custom environment variables
• Simplified DLL overrides
• Manage and install multiple wine/proton/dxvk versions and on-the-fly change
• Various optimizations for better gaming performance (esync, fsync, dxvk, cache, shader compiler, offload ... and much more.)
• Tweak different wine prefix settings, without leaving Bottles
• Automated dxvk installation
• System for checking runner updates for the bottle and automatic repair in case of breakage
• Integrated Dependencies installer with compatibility check based on a community-driven repository
• Detection of installed programs
• Integrated Task manager for wine processes
• Easy access to ProtonDB and WineHQ for support
• Configurations update system across Bottles versions
• Backup and Import bottles from older version and from other managers (Lutris, POL, ..)
• Bottles versioning (experimental)
• ... and much more that you can find by installing Bottles!

🚧 Work in progress

• Installer manager #55
• Import backup from configuration file
• Optional sandboxed bottles

↗️ Install

Bottles is officially provided as Flatpak, AppImage, AUR package. There are also other packages maintained by our community, like Fedora, AUR (bottles-git), CachyOS AUR, and MX Linux.

Read here how to install Bottles on your distribution.

Notices for package maintainers

We are happy to see packaged Bottles but we ask you to respect some small rules:

• The package must be bottles, in other distributions it is possible to use suffixes (e.g. bottles-git on Arch Linux for the git based package) while on others the RDNN format is required (e.g. com.usebottles.bottles on elementary OS and Flathub repository). All other nomenclatures are discouraged.
• In the current development phase, the version corresponds to the formula (2.commit, e.g. 2.a005f01), where possible use this formula throughout the development phase. For stable and 'stable development' release you can use the version in the VERSION file and its release. Please don't travel into the future with releases. It might confuse users.
• Do not package external files and do not make changes to the code, no hard script. Obviously with the exception of files essential for packaging. Once the package is published, you can open a Pull Request to add it to the packages table above! Thanks ❤️!

Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Q	Close Bottles
Ctrl+R	Reload the Bottles list
F1	Go to the documentation
Esc	Go back

FAQ

• Why Bottles?
• Where is Winetricks?
• Older versions will be deprecated?
• Backward compatibility?