Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Proton

The top open-source alternatives to Proton are Darling, Lutris, and Bottles. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Darling Landing Page
1

Darling

Run macOS applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming #Cloud Computing 8 social mentions
Lutris Landing Page
2

Lutris

Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Game Managers #Emulators 524 social mentions
Bottles Landing Page
3

Bottles

Easily manage wineprefix on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming 227 social mentions
QEMU Landing Page
4

QEMU

QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions
Phoenicis Landing Page
5

Phoenicis

Install and run Windows software on Linux and Mac
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Game Managers #Group Chat & Notifications
Cheat Engine Landing Page
6

Cheat Engine

Cheat Engine is an open source memory scanner/hex editor/debugger for Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Hack Game #Debugging 49 social mentions
Playnite Landing Page
7

Playnite

Source code generated using layoutit.com
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Gaming Tools 286 social mentions
Batocera.linux Landing Page
8

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Gaming Tools #Gaming Distribution 41 social mentions
Serverspace.io Landing Page
9

Serverspace.io

Serverspace offers automated, simple, and affordable cloud infrastructure to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- $4.95 / Monthly (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 50 Mbps Bandwidth)
#VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 3 social mentions
WineGUI Landing Page
10

WineGUI

At last, a user-friendly WINE graphical interface
Pricing:
- Open Source
#UI #Git GUI #Game Managers
bochs Landing Page
11

bochs

Bochs IA-32 Emulator provides a virtual PC that can run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and BSD.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management 6 social mentions
WineD3D Landing Page
12

WDD

WineD3D

Is a DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper based on WineD3D, which is an almost full implementation of DirectX used in Wine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Gaming #Mobile Apps 3 social mentions