There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
Is the environment that a launcher like Lutris creates for Wine exclusive, or could I move to a different type, such as Bottles, and still find the installed program I use and its data? I got the impression it just set up Wine for specific needs, and it’s actual Wine doing the work, right?
I’m using it for Scrivener, btw.
I had tried to just use Wine alone and fix the settings myself, but it took me running across Lutris to get things functional. I don’t want do that trial and error again.
I haven’t ever used Lutris but based on another comment I just read, someone said you can just point any other wine manager at the folder of your wine/proton prefixes and it will work the same. Which makes sense, since Lutris is just a manager/frontend wrapper for wine AFAIK.
If you want to share a prefix with Bottles, the only way I’ve found that works is by creating a bottle in Bottles first, then share the prefix folder with whatever else, and the updates to the system registry etc. will be shared.
I rarely launch stuff with vanilla wine, it’s mostly through Heroic Game Launcher or Bottles, but like I described above, as long as I create the wine prefix with Bottles first, sharing said prefix is fine.
As for moving to Bottles from an already existing prefix, I don’t know. You could try just copying and overwriting the prefix that Bottles create and see if it works.
Is the environment that a launcher like Lutris creates for Wine exclusive, or could I move to a different type, such as Bottles, and still find the installed program I use and its data? I got the impression it just set up Wine for specific needs, and it’s actual Wine doing the work, right?
I’m using it for Scrivener, btw.
I had tried to just use Wine alone and fix the settings myself, but it took me running across Lutris to get things functional. I don’t want do that trial and error again.
I haven’t ever used Lutris but based on another comment I just read, someone said you can just point any other wine manager at the folder of your wine/proton prefixes and it will work the same. Which makes sense, since Lutris is just a manager/frontend wrapper for wine AFAIK.
If you want to share a prefix with Bottles, the only way I’ve found that works is by creating a bottle in Bottles first, then share the prefix folder with whatever else, and the updates to the system registry etc. will be shared.
I rarely launch stuff with vanilla wine, it’s mostly through Heroic Game Launcher or Bottles, but like I described above, as long as I create the wine prefix with Bottles first, sharing said prefix is fine.
As for moving to Bottles from an already existing prefix, I don’t know. You could try just copying and overwriting the prefix that Bottles create and see if it works.