Haha! That’s better than what I had :)
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“Draw me like one of your French Girls, or as recently I have taken to calling them, GNU+French Girls”
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Bottles v66 is out with UMU integration, the new ProtoSoda runner, Adaptive mode, a new packaging format (cpak), and many bugfixes.English
9·3 months agoIt’s basically doing what “playonlinux” used to do. It separates containers of different Wine setups - so for example you have some old Windows game that only runs in a window at 1024x768, you make one “bottle” to deal with that, but it doesn’t mess up the settings for running a separate “bottle” for a more recent a Windows-only utility program, which requires a fullscreen desktop, and dotnet4.5 and directx etc.
It also gives the setup a GUI, and lots of dropdown menus for setup, which is easier for most people.
There’s a bit of crossover with Lutris - though Lutris works particularly well for games that are already in its database, but it’s sometimes quite difficult to install anything outside of that - I found bottles to be a lot easier for installing fairly obscure or forgotten software - generally old games, obscure games and hardware configuration utilities for A/V equipment, but also sometimes stuff like indie games or other games that aren’t on Steam.
I do use Playonlinux, Lutris and Bottles, as for some reason, sometimes I’ve been able to get a program running in one and not the other. I very rarely install anything on the default “raw” system Wine any more.
It doesn’t matter who it was. I know the song you meant, and now it is stuck in my head all day.
Thankfully it’s a fairly enjoyable riff to spontaneously interrupt me any time I leave my brain free for a few seconds :)
I’m not quite sure it’s a “community” as such - it looks like just one guy having a bit of a nervous breakdown on his own.

It’s a beautiful car, but German automotive manufacturing between the late 1930s (when the beetle was introduced) and mid 1940s was not necessarily the most… umm… soulful.