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Winetricks vs Bottles: catalog facts
Winetricks	Bottles
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under GPLv3, funded by donations.
Linux, Command line	Linux
Automatic workarounds for a menu of supported applications Installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries into a prefix	Creates and manages Wine prefixes from templates instead of shell commands Manages runner and DXVK versions, and installs dependencies from a catalogue
Only useful alongside Wine Workarounds cover the listed applications, not every program	Linux only, and primarily distributed as a Flatpak Wine compatibility is still Wine compatibility; Bottles cannot make a program work that Wine cannot run
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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