Wine manager Bottles brings easy app installers, tons of other improvements

Bottles is the very promising free and open source application to help you directly manage installing things with Wine, the compatibility layer to run Windows apps and games on Linux. It's going through constant change right now, with lots of big new features being added in.

Release "2022.2.14-trento" is now live. Some highlights include:

• Install programs in one-click using our community installers
• Change default bottles location from preferences
• New repositories manager makes fewer requests and takes less time to load
• Runtime is now also available for non-Flatpak packages
• Search in bottles list if there are at least 10 items
• Automatically fallback to another runner if the system doesn't support Caffe 7+
• Installers can now declare their architecture, so incompatible installers will not be shown
• Dependencies can now be re-installed if something goes wrong
• Programs can now be launched trough terminal right from the context menu
• Task manager can now terminate processes
• WINE Explorer now available from utilities
• New userdir/ placeholder for installers to access sandboxed user directory
• Improved Windows version switch, other keys are updated to ensure that programs detect the correct version
• Improved health check dialog with syntax highlighting
• General UI improvements for consistency
• Introducing SystemComponents to handle unpackable components for non-Flatpak packages
• Support DXVK-async as a component
• Using XDG_DATA_HOME for default Bottles paths (Thanks @nanonyme)
• Gamescope support in Flatpak (Thanks @BigmenPixel0)

Ready for growth, there's also a new dedicated section on their website for finding installers. You will also find their own bundled version of Wine named "Caffe", has been upgraded to Wine 7.2. Plus, plenty of the usual bug fixes sprinkled right in.