Add Philosophy and/or Use Case to "why bottle" FAQ

[TheJoeSchr]

Hi,

I think I'm drawn to this idea, but I still don't get how this differs from other solutions after reading faq and all docs.

I think there might be a part about the philosophy behind bottles needed.

And example of how to use Bottles in the canonical way. Maybe another one if you are coming from steam proton and lutris.

For eg. questions I still ask myself:

• Am I supposed to just make to bottles, one for software and one for games and then install/import everything in there accordingly?

• what if they need different proton versions to work (or dependencies)

• Or do I still have different bottles for different games.

• How about something like vortex? One vortex to rule all games?

Ps.: A small bug on the forums and the reason I'm writing here. You can't sign-up/login via GitHub on mobile over there

[mirkobrombin]

Hi, thanks for reaching us. These pages explain some concepts:

• https://docs.usebottles.com/faq/why-bottles
• https://docs.usebottles.com/faq/where-is-winetricks

Should we make this more clean?

[TheJoeSchr]

Hi, thanks for reaching us. These pages explain some concepts:

• https://docs.usebottles.com/faq/why-bottles
• https://docs.usebottles.com/faq/where-is-winetricks

Should we make this more clean?

Yes. Sorry, I wanted to include a part where I stated that I read all the docs and the faq, but seem to have forgotten it

Edit: no, I said it in the first sentence. Should probably have highlighted it

[TheJoeSchr]

After reading bottles again, I'm still thinking about this.

I really don't get where to place bottles besides wine and proton and steam. What is bottles usecase?

Is it supposed to be similar to lutris/gamehubs/etc? One app to manage all your games with different launchers.

Or should I use steam and link it to each individual bottle? Put isn't it then like proton?

[mirkobrombin]

Bottles is an application that allows you to easily manage Wine prefixes on your favorite Linux distribution.

Windows prefixes are environments where it is possible to run Windows software using runners. Runners are compatibility layers capable of running Windows applications on a Linux system. In Bottles we call these environments as bottles.

aka Bottles is a Wine prefix manager.

Why should you use Bottles? Almost all Wine features are directly implemented in our GTK GUI and automated when possible. We also have versioning system, auto-discovered programs, support for a lot of tech like dxvk, vkd3d, latencyflex, gamescope, gamemode etc... we also provide a built-in dependencies manager so no wineticks, no weird looking windows, just inside the GUI. We have automated installers to streamline the whole installation process. We have backups, duplications and environments to automatically configure your bottle.

Closing as our doc should already answer those questions but feel free to add more comments.