• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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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.