Protontricks Alternatives

Protontricks is described as 'A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks' and is a compatibility layer tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Protontricks for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Wine, Windows and Flathub apps. The best Protontricks alternative is Wine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Protontricks are Proton, PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac, ReactOS and Bottles.

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A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.

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Protontricks alternatives page was last updated Jan 2, 2025
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  1. Darling icon
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    Run macOS applications on Linux.

    27 Darling alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Darling Features

    1.  macOS-like

    Darling VS Protontricks

     
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    A Vulkan-based translation layer for D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11, which can be used on Linux with Wine.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wine

    DXVK Features

    1.  Run Windows software
    2.  Emulation
    3.  Run Windows Games
    4.  In-Game Overlay
    5.  FPS counter

    DXVK VS Protontricks

     
  3. WineZGUI icon
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    WineZGUI (pronounced Wine-Zee-Goo-Eee) is a wine frontend for playing windows games with wine easily. It is a collection of Bash scripts for Wine Prefix Management and Linux Desktop Integration for easier wine gaming experience using Zenity.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub

    WineZGUI Features

    1.  Run Windows software

    WineZGUI VS Protontricks

     
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    Steam emulator that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer APIs on a LAN without steam or an internet connection.

    31 Goldberg Emulator alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam

    Properties

    1.  Gaming-focused

    Features

    1.  Local multiplayer
    2.  LAN

    Goldberg Emulator VS Protontricks

     
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    This is my build of Proton with the most recent bleeding-edge Proton Experimental WINE.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wine

    Proton GE VS Protontricks

     
  6. ProtonPlus icon
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    A simple Wine and Proton-based compatibility tools manager.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • Wine
    • Flatpak
    • Proton
    • Vala
    • Nix Package Manager

    ProtonPlus Features

    1.  Gtk

    ProtonPlus VS Protontricks

     
  7. Phoenicis icon
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    Phoenicis is a graphical front-end for Wine, a tool to help Linux and Mac users run games and programs for Windows. The future of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac.

    41 Phoenicis alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Phoenicis Features

    1.  Run Windows Games
    2.  Run Windows software

    Phoenicis VS Protontricks

     
  8. Q4wine icon
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    Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for wine that will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications

    37 Q4wine alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Wine

    Q4wine Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension

    Q4wine VS Protontricks

     
  9. Hangover icon
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    This is Hangover, a project started by André Zwing and Stefan Dösinger in 2016 to run (x86_64)/x86_32 Windows applications on aarch64/(ppc64le)/x86_64 Wine. (Architectures in brackets are currently not supported).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Hangover Features

    1.  Run Windows software

    Hangover VS Protontricks

     
  10. MiceWine icon
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    MiceWine is a project that aims to run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    MiceWine Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Run Windows software

    MiceWine VS Protontricks

     
  11. Wineskin Winery icon
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    Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose.

    32 Wineskin Winery alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Wine
    Discontinued

    Hasn't been updated in over 6 years and doesn't work on most modern versions of macOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wineskin/, https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer#wineskin

    Wineskin Winery Features

    1.  Run Windows software
    2.  Run Windows Games

    Wineskin Winery VS Protontricks

     
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    Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Wine
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    • Slackware

    Winetricks VS Protontricks

     
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