• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    3 个月前

    How much development is actually needed to build a graphical interface for setting the WINEPREFIX environment variable?

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      To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it’s running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

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      It’s not a catch-all game launcher.

      It’s a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.

      It’s basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.

      Running windows games is just one use-case.

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        Yeah, same with Lutris. You don’t HAVE to run games in it, it works just as well with other software

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          Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it’s meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.

          Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn’t as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.

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      I see the advantages that.

      • Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)

      • Sandboxed (Only flatpak)

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      Gtk on Gnome vs Qt on Kde. I tried bottles. it’s fine. I can live without it given we now have a decent Lutris and Heroic

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      Better UI and many of the tools for managing wine prefixes are higher quality, rather than relying on something like Winetricks, which is actually a 20000 line bash script.

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        pick your compatibility poison I guess, the ubiquitous shell or 10-15GB of flatpak dependencies

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          I use the Nix package, so neither. Although I also use flatpaks for other stuff so I doubt it would require many dependencies I’m not already using.

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    I thought their priority was vanilla OS. I hope that project has the cash to survive too