Linux @lemmy.ml petsoi @discuss.tchncs.de 7d ago

Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

linuxiac.com Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development

Despite massive adoption, Bottles faces funding shortages. The team shares its reality and asks users to help shape the project’s future.

Linux @programming.dev cm0002 @programming.dev 7d ago

linuxiac.com /bottles-team-needs-funding-to-sustain-development/

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I never managed to run an application usinng bottles :/
- I used it for non-steam games for a while because Lutris is a broken mess
  
  huh. what breaks for you in lutris? i works pretty well for me.
- Same here. I run apps in Heroic games launcher
  
  I use Steam by adding apps as non-steam games and forcing it to use Proton.
- I'm using bottles to run Roon. Works great and was easy.
How much development is actually needed to build a graphical interface for setting the WINEPREFIX environment variable?
- 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.
  
  They use GitHub for the code already. Their hosting cost could be pretty much zero if they would use GitHub Pages for their website, and redirect their domain to that.
I never understood the advantage Bottles has over Lutris
- 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.
  
  Yeah, same with Lutris. You don't HAVE to run games in it, it works just as well with other software
- 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
- I see the advantages that.
  
  Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)
  
  Sandboxed (Only flatpak)
- 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.
  
  pick your compatibility poison I guess, the ubiquitous shell or 10-15GB of flatpak dependencies
- Looks pretty
I use Bottles daily and just made a donation two days ago :)
I thought their priority was vanilla OS. I hope that project has the cash to survive too

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