Bottles

Easily run Windows Software using Bottles

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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 to 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
Automated installers
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
... and much more that you can find by installing Bottles!

🚧 Work in progress

Layers (dependencies and programs on different layers) #510

↗️ Install

Bottles is officially provided as Flatpak.

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.
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.
Package version should follow the CalVer model (year.month.day) and the release cycle of the project. Bottles has 2 releases per month: one on 14th and one on 28th. When a hotfix is released, this will be appended to the release version (e.g. 2022.2.14-1). Bottles has a codename too which is not mandatory and currently only used by the Flatpak.

Shortcuts

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

FAQ

Code of Conduct

This project follows the GNOME Code of Conduct. You are expected to follow it in all Bottles spaces, such as this repository, project's social media, messenger chats and forums. Bigotry and harassment will not be tolerated.

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