Playnite might be a bit more popular than Bottles. We know about 286 links to it since March 2021 and only 228 links to Bottles. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I've done something similar before with Playnite (an open-source PC game library manager), which has an HLTB plugin. Source: 6 months ago
Playnite: The one with the most features and libraries available via addons and has a lot of options for customization. In my opinion the best one available for this purpose. Source: 6 months ago
As for my LGO, the only other app I've installed outside of the standard launcher was Playnite to consolidate all games into one place as Legion Space doesn't detect everything I have installed and I don't want to manage manually adding games to their launcher. Source: 6 months ago
Use playnite instead of the individual launchers. Source: 6 months ago
Here is where I come in and recommend everyone check out Playnite: https://playnite.link/ When I care about supporting a developer or publisher and they offer their product on their own storefront DRM-free, I will often go there to buy. Or I buy from GoG which takes a smaller cut. Playnite lets me launch my Steam and non-Steam games in a seamless fashion. Steam still does a great job as a game installer/patch... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Plenty of older games only seem to work with certain versions of Proton/Wine, DXVK etc. There are projects like Bottles which let you manage multiple Proton distributions https://usebottles.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago
If it need installation (or has some kind of wizard), probably look into UseBottles and once installed, link the .exe to Steam. Source: 6 months ago
Bottles is very convenient to manage wine https://usebottles.com/. Source: 6 months ago
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 6 months ago
Bottles is great for old classic non-steam games. I haven't tried 🏴☠️ with it but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Source: 6 months ago
LaunchBox - LaunchBox is a portable, box-art-based games database and launcher for DOSBox, emulators, arcade cabinets, and PC Games. Download it free!
Lutris - Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux.
RetroArch - RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
Wine - Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Batocera.linux - Batocera.linux is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming distribution that can be copied to a USB stick or an SD card with the aim of turning any computer/nano computer into a gaming console during a game or permanently.