Alternatives to Protontricks
A wrapper that runs Winetricks commands against the prefixes of Steam Proton games. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Protontricks
A wrapper that runs Winetricks commands against the prefixes of Steam Proton games.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Protontricks.
Winetricks
A helper script that installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries and applies tweaks to Wine prefixes.
Winetricks is the underlying script and works on any Wine prefix, but it does not locate Steam Proton game prefixes automatically.
SteamTinkerLaunch
A Linux wrapper for Steam that adds graphical configuration of launch options and third-party tools.
SteamTinkerLaunch offers a graphical per-game configuration for Proton games and third-party tools, covering launch options more broadly than installing Windows components.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Proton
Valve's Wine-based compatibility tool that lets Steam run Windows games on Linux.
GE-Proton
A community build of Valve's Proton compatibility tool for running Windows games through Steam Play on Linux.
ProtonUp-Qt
A Linux desktop app that installs and manages GE-Proton, Wine-GE and other compatibility tools.
Bottles
A friendly manager for Wine prefixes on Linux, so running a Windows program means picking an environment rather than editing config files.
