[Request]: Multi-user Bottles

[3ri4nG0ld]

Tell us the problem or your need

Currently the prefixes are always executed as the user that creates them, as wine does by default, but I think it would be more useful/convenient to create multi-user prefixes to be able to use a software with any user of the system.

I think the way bottles currently works is perfect, but it would be great to have an option to create shared prefixes between multiple users.

Describe the solution you'd like

For wine there are some solutions on the internet that involve creating a prefix in /opt or /usr/share and running wine with a specific user such as "wineuser": https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917422

I think it would be useful to be able to create prefixes with bottles to install applications on the system without having to copy it between all my users.

Other solutions?

Perhaps a solution is to create a prefix with read/write permissions for other users. But I've read that this is a major security problem (which makes a lot of sense).

Additional context and references

It does not appear that wine has the ability to create multi-user prefixes, nor does it appear that it will in the near future.

https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=35576 https://wine-users.winehq.narkive.com/XSn63bQf/wine-multiple-users-on-linux-way-to-share-a-single-wine#post2

[mirkobrombin]

This is something we could consider for Bottles Next.