Bottles

Bottles – running programs and games for Windows on Linux. A free and open source program

Review

Easily run Windows programs and games on Linux using Bottles!

Bottles is ready for games

Bottles’ Gaming Environment comes preconfigured to support a large set of Windows video games on Linux.

Thanks to our installers you can have immediate access to the most famous game stores (e.g. Epic Games Store, EA Launcher, Battle.net etc.) and then play your favorite games, just like on Windows.

Empowered by environments

Bottles provides the ability to work with Windows prefixes using environments, a combination of ready-to-use settings, libraries, and dependencies.

Environments are offered: Application – for programs, Gaming – for games and Custom – more advanced users can choose a custom environment to customize the bottle themselves.

Highly tweakable

Customize your Windows environment with ease.

Choose whether to use dxvk, vkd3d, gamemode, esync, fsync or other, Bottles will handle it all for you.

Change runners on the fly or install new ones for all your tests.

Integrated dependency manager

Windows software need dependencies to work properly.

Bottles comes with a powerful and easy-to-use dependency manager that automates this task.

Just look for the package you need and then “install”, Bottles will take care of everything for you.

Install programs in one click

Installers (introduced in 2022.2.14) are an easy way to install games and applications into your bottles.

Installers are instruction sets written by our community, which automate the entire dependency setup and installation process. You won’t have to worry about anything anymore.

Easy to restore

The Snapshots manager allows you to easily restore a previous state of your bottle.

If enabled, Bottles will automatically create a new snapshot when you install a new dependency.

If something goes wrong, go to the Snapshots section of your bottle and restore the previous state.

Safe. Sandboxed.

Your bottles are isolated from the system and will only hit your personal files when you decide.

The full-sandbox is provided and pre-configured only using the Flatpak package (highly recommended).

All other packages still have access to the partial sandbox which isolates the bottle files and prevents them from accessing your homedir.

Other Features:

• It is possible to import environments from other Wine managers such as Lutris and PlayOnLinux;
• There is a search;
• Light and dark theme support;
• You can disable notifications about downloads and installations;
• Offline mode support (disconnecting the network connection with the Bottles program);
• You can select a catalog that contains the data of your bottles.

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Installation

Install Software via Flatpak package

flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles

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