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  • No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

    Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

    Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

    Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

    Very handy.

    Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D















  • It totally depends on your usecase.

    NVidia runs 100% rocksolid on X11.

    If you’re someone who reallse uses CUDA and all their stuff and don’t care about Wayland. NVidia is the choice you have to make. Simple as that.

    If you don’t care about those things or are willing to sacrifice time and tinker around with AMDs subpar alternatives, AMD is the way to go.

    Because let’s face it. AMD didn’t care about machine learning stuff and they only now begin to dabble in it. They lost a huge amount of people who work with those things as their day job. They can’t tell their bosses and/or clients that they can’t work for a week or two until they figured out how to get this alternative running that is just starting to care about that field of work.