StartWine Guide

April 30, 2026 · View on GitHub

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StartWine is a launcher that allows you to quickly and easily launch Windows applications on Linux operating systems

StartWine Guide

Review

Setup
Build
GUI
Creating shortcuts and running games
What is used in StartWine?
Thank you!
Useful links
License

Setup

To start using the program, download StartWine itself from the GitHub page in the releases section. Make the file executable, move it to the terminal and press Enter.

GitHub > Click

AUR > Click

Installation with one command:

Copy one of the commands, paste it into the terminal and press Enter.

bash -c "$(curl -sL RusNor.github.io)"

bash -c "$(wget -qO - RusNor.github.io)"

The command for Ubuntu if the installation suddenly fails

sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0

sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/98-apparmor-unuserns.conf <<<kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0

Build dependencies:

     python3
     cargo
     rustup
     gettext
     cairo
     glib
     gio
     gobject
     gdk-pixbuf
     gdk4
     pango
     graphene
     gsk4
     gtk4
     libraw

git clone https://github.com/RusNor/StartWine-Launcher.git
cd StartWine-Launcher
./build help

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USAGE:
    [./build] [COMMAND] [PATH]
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DEFAULT PATH: /home/$USER
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COMMANDS:
    all                   Build all ( release source and runtime ).
    release               Build the release and download the latest runtime.
    naked                 Build the release without runtime. ( not recommended )
    rust                  Build only the rust source.
    python                Build only the python source.
    runtime               Build only the runtime.
    download-base         Download the minimal base runtime.
    download-runtime      Download the latest release runtime.
    clean                 Remove build files.
    clean-download        Remove downloaded files.
    clean-all             Remove all build and downloaded files.
    help                  Print help.
    -----------------------------------------------------

GUI

StartWine Screenshots

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Creating shortcuts and running games

Go to the directory, click 2 times on the .exe file and select “Create shortcut”

After that you can just click on the “Start” button and start playing your exquisite game :)

Tip!

In some cases, it may turn out that the installation is going, but the percentages are not going, and the culprit is in my or maybe you have it NTFS the partition of the disk from which you started the installer. The fact is that if you have a so-called dualbut or multi-boot, call it as you like, then if you have not booted from Windows, then Windows will safely take away your rights to any actions on files. What should I do in this case?
Option 1: Just reboot into Windows, you don't have to be logged in, then reboot into your Linux distribution. Or after booting into Windows, disable hibernation mode. How to do this? look on the internet.
Option 2: In the folder where you have the files with the game installer, copy it and transfer it to the Linux partition, preferably in the /home/ $USER/ (where$ USER should be your username) section.

What is used in StartWine?

StartWine was written from scratch, but using already ready-made components without which the program itself did not appear

List

GTK 4
Wine-Staging
Proton GE
Proton EM
Steam Proton
DXVK
VK3D
MangoHud (Thanks VHSgunzo for the patch to work on Nvidia graphics cards!)
vkBasalt
Mesa
Runimage
Runimage nvidia drivers
AMD FSR
dgVoodoo2
DLSS

Thank you!

Developers

Created and helped write code

Participants in the project

StartWine Community
Андрей
3y6HuK
Alexandrdrdr
Huskysoul
kazbek
Kot41ru
Fanchji (Vitaly)
Survolog
Lex
Lintech
Sheridan
Wik

Project design

StartWine Design Socialist Party

Thank you to everyone who participated in the testing and development of StartWine, as well as in supporting it with their enthusiasm and great patience. ❤️

Useful links

The author of the manual > Lintech

Website > Click

Telegram > Click

Discord server > Discord

License

This file is part of StartWine-Launcher.

StartWine-Launcher is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

StartWine-Launcher is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with StartWine-Launcher. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.