Very interesting! Though I will say that Proton (Valve's custom build of wine) works on non steam games as well.
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It does! In bottles you can add Wine-Proton-GE as your wine version from the user interface or from ProtonUp-Qt
Some games may require minor tweaks which may require you to download a bunch of files outside of steam. It’s why I prefer to have launchers that use Proton but also gives you a menu of options and features rather than having me search for them one by one
I could've sworn people were more likely to recommend Lutris over Bottles, but I guess I'm going off of old info.
And as an aside, Wine also works on MacOS and the BSDs. It's not just Linux.
Lutris is good if you enjoy using the runners and install scripts (and are already invested in Lutris). But I think bottles has a simpler interface (using and installing) for new users and the project is in very active development compared to Lutris. Plus it integrates really well with the GNOME desktop.
Wine also works on MacOS and the BSDs. It's not just Linux.
Whoops, forgot about that. Thanks for pointing that out.
Love Bottles, it's been so useful for me. Sadly always had issues with Lutris despite it seeming to work well for most people.
I use Heroic launcher for most things, and Bottles as a fallback for any other games it doesn't support, hasn't failed me yet.