Bottles
by The Bottles Contributors
Run Windows software
Dangerous permissions
Verified creator
GPL-3.0-only
v67.3
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About
Bottles lets you run Windows software on Linux, such as applications and games. It introduces a workflow that helps you organize by categorizing each software to your liking. Bottles provides several tools and integrations to help you manage and optimize your applications.
Features:
- Use pre-configured environments as a base
- Change runners for any bottle
- Various optimizations and options for gaming
- Repair in case software or bottle is broken
- Install various known dependencies
- Integrated task manager to manage and monitor processes
- Backup and restore
Permissions
4 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - development features (ptrace, can inspect other processes in its sandbox)
--allow=devel - talks to system service org.freedesktop.UDisks2
--system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.UDisks2 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - access to ~/Games/umu
--filesystem=~/Games/umu:create - access to xdg-data/umu
--filesystem=xdg-data/umu:create - multi-architecture binaries
--allow=multiarch - per-app shared memory
--allow=per-app-dev-shm
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub