[Request]: Unify and anonymize the username used inside Wine bottles

[omichalek]

Tell us the problem or your need

I would welcome if the directory inside drive_c/users/ would always have the same name

1. Some runners use different usernames - Proton creates users/steamuser, others create users/$USER.
   • This leads to duplicate data inside the directory
   • It causes the data to appear to be lost when switching the runners.
2. A bottle that is "sandboxed" should not need to use the host linux username anyway

Describe the solution you'd like

A simple drive_c/users/user used by all Wine runners would sound great to me.

Other solutions?

No response

Additional context and references

I have another related user-data suggestion here: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/1923

[mirkobrombin]

What are the benefits of this?

[omichalek]

switching between Proton and other Wine versions does not make you loose your data

[mirkobrombin]

Proton will still force its username

[omichalek]

would it then be possible to change every other Wine runner to use "steamuser" instead?

[mirkobrombin]

Nope as this will result in weird configurations. You should not use Proton for non Steam purposes, use Soda or Wine-GE instead which are proton based.

Closing as there is no fix for this.