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How much development is actually needed to build a graphical interface for setting the
WINEPREFIXenvironment variable?To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it's running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.
They use GitHub for the code already. Their hosting cost could be pretty much zero if they would use GitHub Pages for their website, and redirect their domain to that.
I think they host wine/proton releases at least, maybe more
Which can be hosted on GitHub as well.