The NLnet Foundation revealed more projects receiving funding from NGI Zero Commons, which includes the popular Bottles app for running Windows apps on Linux.
Heroic and Lutris have strong opinions and narrow, focused use-cases. Bottles is really just a generic, all purpose GUI for easily managing the underlying CLI tools. It’s the next best thing to directly using Wine on the command line.
It’s not just a prefix manager. Bottles also provides a more predictable runtime environment using Flatpak sandboxing (it uses its own libraries instead of whatever’s installed on the system), and is specifically developed with that in mind.
It’s a launcher that uses Wine variants (“runners”) to emulate the Windows runtime environment, like Lutris.
https://usebottles.com/
Oh like Heroic
It’s far more flexible, but yes.
Heroic and Lutris have strong opinions and narrow, focused use-cases. Bottles is really just a generic, all purpose GUI for easily managing the underlying CLI tools. It’s the next best thing to directly using Wine on the command line.
It’s not just a prefix manager. Bottles also provides a more predictable runtime environment using Flatpak sandboxing (it uses its own libraries instead of whatever’s installed on the system), and is specifically developed with that in mind.
It predates Heroic by at least a few years, but yes, they are similar in purpose.