nellokudo / winelike

Wine wrapper to use .exe files just like on Windows 🍷

WineLike 🍷

Run your .exe files just like on Windows! 👻

WineLike is a simple Wine wrapper designed to make running all your .exe files within a unified WinePrefix. This offers several advantages:

• Eliminating the need to use separate installations for every Windows program you'll ever want to launch
• Using a Wineprefix with all core Windows components already installed and working (dotnet, fonts, DX11/12..)
• Making it easier to run portable .exe files, just like on Windows
• Acting as a seamless drop-in replacement for repositories' Wine, but also supporting esync/fsync!

Installation

• Make sure you have Wine dependencies installed before running the script or it won't work!

  • Lutris: Installing Wine and dependencies

• After that, paste the following in your terminal:

bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NelloKudo/WineLike/main/winelike-install.sh)"

• Due to Winetricks installing Windows' core components, installation is going to take ~10/15 min. depending on your PC and connection. Please be patient! 🙏

Usage

Right-clicking your .exe files and selecting 'Open with WineLike' should be enough to run your programs.

However, WineLike also provides a helper script aimed at managing WineLike's Wineprefix:

winelike --kill: Kills WineLike if hanging!
winelike --winecfg: Runs winecfg on prefix
winelike --regedit: Runs regedit on prefix
winelike --winetricks: Runs winetricks on prefix
winelike --remove: Removes WineLike from PC
winelike: prints this! :3"

Credits

Kron4ek's Wine Builds for providing the Wine binary used by WineLike!

Winetricks for installing all Windows' core components 🙏

And that's all! Enjoy running your Windows programs, but better 🍷