Run Windows Programs With Bottles in Linux — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey guys what's going on it's Don here
2. 0:01from Nova Spirit Tech and welcome back
3. 0:03to our Channel and today I'm going to be
4. 0:04showing you guys a really cool program
5. 0:05called bottles which is basically a wine
6. 0:08installer for Linux so let's get started
7. 0:12[Music]
8. 0:17now I use Linux a lot and from time to
9. 0:19time I have to install Windows programs
10. 0:22there's just no doubt about it sometimes
11. 0:24it could be Photoshop sometimes it could
12. 0:25be office or it could be just some
13. 0:27utilities that only have Windows
14. 0:29variants now I don't know if you
15. 0:31stumbled across this before but there
16. 0:34are dependencies involved in installing
17. 0:36each component so sometimes when you
18. 0:38install One windows program say like
19. 0:40office that requires VC run 2019 or if
20. 0:44you install another program like
21. 0:46Photoshop that requires something else
22. 0:47you can't have them mix between each
23. 0:50other because they will conflict so
24. 0:52bottles is the software that is a GUI
25. 0:55installer for wine that will actually
26. 0:57bottle or contain everything on its own
27. 1:00making it easier for you to install now
28. 1:03you can manually do this whole process
29. 1:04which is called wine prefixes you just
30. 1:07substitute your own directory for each
31. 1:09wine or Windows installation so you
32. 1:11could do your own thing for each program
33. 1:13but after five or six programs you're
34. 1:16gonna start getting confused on where or
35. 1:18what dependencies it has
36. 1:20etc etc so bottles basically contains
37. 1:24everything all in one and puts it into a
38. 1:26really pretty GUI now to get this
39. 1:28installed it only supports flat pack
40. 1:30which is great because it works really
41. 1:32good all you have to do is just go into
42. 1:34your software Center
43. 1:36and search for the program bottles now
44. 1:39if you don't have the software center
45. 1:42with flat pack installed you're going to
46. 1:43have to do that first but it should come
47. 1:47up like this run Windows software it
48. 1:49looks like bottles and then you could
49. 1:50install it now in my case again I've
50. 1:53already done many videos on installing
51. 1:54flat pack and installing a gnome
52. 1:57software Center so you could definitely
53. 1:59Google it in my Channel or search
54. 2:01anywhere else for basically gnome
55. 2:03software package and flat pack it'll
56. 2:06give you two commands to get this
57. 2:07installed now once this is installed it
58. 2:09will boot up like this
59. 2:11and here it is what you can do right now
60. 2:15is create a new bottle or if you have
61. 2:17something in your library which I don't
62. 2:18because I don't have any bottles you
63. 2:20would have to do something here now say
64. 2:22I wanted to install Battlenet and
65. 2:25because OverWatch is a new thing and you
66. 2:27want to install battle instead of using
67. 2:29lutras which basically this is just like
68. 2:32a lootress lutras just does it for
69. 2:34gaming and it you know contains
70. 2:35everything for each individual game for
71. 2:37what it needs uh this is just for
72. 2:39Windows programs and games
73. 2:41so uh say I'm going to do bnet okay and
74. 2:44I'm going to hit create it will actually
75. 2:47create the folders containers and all
76. 2:49the
77. 2:50information that it kind of needs for
78. 2:52most Windows installation so give this a
79. 2:56few seconds and it'll just create this
80. 2:58new bottle for you what's cool is that
81. 3:00you can also save the bottle for future
82. 3:02use which means you can export it out
83. 3:04with all the settings so if you want to
84. 3:06install on another computer all you have
85. 3:07to do is just import the settings and
86. 3:09you will have your bottle all set up
87. 3:11now there are a lot of options in here
88. 3:13as well that you can configure that you
89. 3:15don't normally find on your regular wine
90. 3:17installation that this does it
91. 3:19automatically for you so that's always a
92. 3:22benefit
93. 3:23now here I have the bottle created and
94. 3:25if I go into there I'm going to go down
95. 3:27the list of stuff we have our Pro the
96. 3:29first program that we're going to run
97. 3:30which is the installable or any program
98. 3:32that you want to install as far as games
99. 3:34go and then if you go over to
100. 3:36preferences here you can actually adjust
101. 3:38some settings you got uh dxvk Vulcan 3D
102. 3:42dlss FSR and I use this a lot for most
103. 3:45Linux games uh latency Flex discrete GPU
104. 3:49if you're using a laptop so you could
105. 3:50choose between the Intel or the on-board
106. 3:52discrete video card and then you have a
107. 3:54few other things that you could play
108. 3:56around with over here if you got like
109. 3:57mango HUD you could enable it over here
110. 4:00which I don't own this machine yet but
111. 4:02there's a lot of things that you could
112. 4:03do especially if you got dll overrides
113. 4:06or depending on the environment or the
114. 4:08game that you're trying to choose you
115. 4:10can adjust the settings to that
116. 4:12especially on dependencies say like if
117. 4:14you need DirectX 11 or if you need uh
118. 4:17dot net to play this game you could just
119. 4:19install it right through here now what's
120. 4:21really cool is
121. 4:22um if you go into installers you can
122. 4:25actually install the specific ones that
123. 4:27you need so if you want bad on that you
124. 4:28could just click here and install
125. 4:29Battlenet you know since uh OverWatch 2
126. 4:31is pretty popular right now uh then you
127. 4:34got epic game store or even Star Citizen
128. 4:37now if I go back and I create uh see now
129. 4:41it doesn't have the big menu you just
130. 4:42have to hit the plus button over here
131. 4:44amps and you go to app environment for
132. 4:47Windows it's going to install all the
133. 4:49stuff that Windows usually require like
134. 4:51VC run or net 4.8 or certain stuff that
135. 4:56mainly are is geared towards Windows
136. 4:58applications it'll create the bottle for
137. 5:00that and then in there again you could
138. 5:03go into Apps and then in there you're
139. 5:06going to here and again going
140. 5:08dependencies add all the stuff that you
141. 5:10want so save I want to install an
142. 5:13application
143. 5:14um I am looking for I think I recently
144. 5:16install the levitator setup.exe I hit
145. 5:19run
146. 5:21it's going to go through that installer
147. 5:23this application does not require any
148. 5:26specifics so it just runs right off the
149. 5:28bat
150. 5:29and I could just go through this install
151. 5:32that's my software I decide to choose
152. 5:33this because it's much quicker launch at
153. 5:36the end and that is it the application
154. 5:39will just run now if I want to go into
155. 5:40programs and click here and save it as
156. 5:45my library
157. 5:46every time when I go into Library here I
158. 5:49will have my little thing now this shows
159. 5:51the wrong thumbnail because this is an
160. 5:53app but regardless it does work and then
161. 5:57I just have to hit the play button over
162. 5:58here and it'll run that software that I
163. 6:00have just installed this applies for
164. 6:02games as well so if you guys got games
165. 6:04and you want to install like I said your
166. 6:06Battlenet or at the game launcher or
167. 6:07whatever it is
168. 6:09works as well now there are different
169. 6:11bottles out there in the world I haven't
170. 6:12done much research on where to get more
171. 6:14bottles but they do have a website and
172. 6:17it's right here use bottles.com and you
173. 6:20could look through more of the
174. 6:21documentations if you have any issues
175. 6:23just do a bug report uh but yeah you
176. 6:26have a bunch of stuff over here as well
177. 6:28and you could probably find the
178. 6:30information that you are looking for
179. 6:31especially if you're trying to build
180. 6:32your own application out as a bottle
181. 6:34form anyway that is it for this
182. 6:36application I've just recently
183. 6:38discovered this and I really like using
184. 6:40it now I I gotta be honest I haven't
185. 6:42migrated all my applications over to
186. 6:44bottles yet I've migrated some just for
187. 6:46testing purposes but so far I haven't
188. 6:48ran into any issues I got Battlenet
189. 6:50OverWatch at the game launcher working
190. 6:54um the levitator the one that you just
191. 6:56saw that's another program working I do
192. 6:58eventually want to migrate office over
193. 7:00and a few Windows applications that I
194. 7:02have but so far so good I like the fact
195. 7:04that everything is separate and
196. 7:06contained and I don't have to worry
197. 7:07about remembering what wine prefix I
198. 7:10have set up just for that particular
199. 7:11installation anyway that is it you guys
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