Alternatives to Winetricks
A helper script that installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries and applies tweaks to Wine prefixes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Winetricks
A helper script that installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries and applies tweaks to Wine prefixes.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Winetricks.
Protontricks
A wrapper that runs Winetricks commands against the prefixes of Steam Proton games.
Protontricks wraps Winetricks to find Steam Proton game prefixes automatically, so it targets Proton games rather than plain Wine prefixes and still requires Winetricks installed.
Bottles
A friendly manager for Wine prefixes on Linux, so running a Windows program means picking an environment rather than editing config files.
Bottles installs dependencies from a catalogue into Wine prefixes through a graphical Linux interface, adding versioning, backups and built-in winecfg and regedit tools.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Wine
An open-source compatibility layer that runs Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS and BSD.
CrossOver
A commercial Wine-based tool that runs Windows applications and games on macOS and Linux.
Lutris
A Linux gaming platform that installs the right emulator, Wine build or engine for each game and launches them from one place.
Proton
Valve's Wine-based compatibility tool that lets Steam run Windows games on Linux.
DXVK
Vulkan-based translation layer that runs Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 games on Linux.
ProtonUp-Qt
A Linux desktop app that installs and manages GE-Proton, Wine-GE and other compatibility tools.
