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osu! on Linux with Bottles

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s3_j0d1
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Joined August 2020
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s3_j0d1

With Bottles now you can install osu! in Linux with ease.

NOTE: This tutorial is performed on Acer Aspire-E5-476G running Linux Mint 21 and the peripherals are only keyboard and mouse. Using other than this peripheral is not guaranteed (It may work).

1. Install the Flatpak

Flatpak is the recommended way of installing Bottles, so we install this first:
sudo apt install flatpak
Other distro (not debian based), refer to this https://flatpak.org/setup/

Reboot your system

Add the Flathub repository:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

2. Install the Bottles

Bottles are the software where osu! run, install with:
flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles

Open Bottles by clicking the icon, if you do not find the icon you can search using the menu search in your distro or using this command:
flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles
Once opened you will be greeted with an information panel, click next and install some necessary dependencies. Also running with this command will give you a verbose run in the terminal.

When done create a new bottle by clicking "Create a New Bottle", name your bottle, choose the "Custom" environment and wait for the bottle to be created
NOTE: Caffe is recommended runner. If you have issue try other runner.

3. Install dependencies and installing osu!


  • This is the list of dependencies:
  1. cjkfonts
  2. allfonts
  3. dotnet48
You can install it by clicking the arrow, clicking the dependencies tab, search and install the listed dependencies above

After installing the dependencies, click on the details & utilities and click run executable

After installing osu! it should launch itself up and check the performance if you don't find it satisfactory. Try tweaking it in the preferences tab
NOTE: Please disable "Discrete Graphics" if you have issues.

You can add osu! to the programs tab by clicking "+" button and enabling show hidden files. Usually, the osu!.exe is located in:
/home/[user name]/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/[bottles name]/drive_c/users/[user name]/AppData/Local/osu!

4. Done! 🎉🎉🎉

Now you can play osu!. Share your experience with other people in this thread or if you have trouble and know how to fix it, share it here. It will be helpful

5. Addtional information

During testing with my laptop (Acer Aspire-E5-476G) with Intel i3-6006U, 8GB RAM, and Nvidia MX130. It run nice, I'm getting around 280 fps with 3-4 ms latency.


Bottles website: https://usebottles.com/
Bottles documentation: https://docs.usebottles.com/
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eycer1995
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Joined November 2014
eycer1995
What a coincidence, i was just looking how to install osu! on linux and all the guides I found were using lutris... but then I remembered about Bottles (casually saw it when scrolling on flathub few weeks ago), and I liked the idea of "containerized" windows apps luckily someone tried with osu nice timing there huh.

really thank you for posting this definitely will try it, currently using fedora 36. Is nice to see some linux pals around here!
DanilPl3yOff
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Joined October 2017
DanilPl3yOff
OwO Thanks you so much!

It's so easier install now, than before and it even runs from my windows installation.
also much better perfomance wise, I'm happy now :3

- from Manjaro linux on Swift SF314-41G


Edit: since install I had issue with map loading, they are really slow (like 20s on each listing of beatmaps) and osu! is freezing when I try to use search.

FIX: if you have something like this, Select Runner "sys-wine-7.7" in (Bottle)Preferences -> Component version. hope this will help you too :3


Otherwise performance on this laptop something like this:
resolution: 1920x1080
menu: 120fps ~8-9ms
single player gameplay: ~480fps ~2-4ms

when on windows it was like 10ms in gameplay with resolution of 1280x720
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Nyaaori
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Joined April 2022
Nyaaori
Just a heads up, on systems with vulkan support, it's better to leave out d3dx11 and use bottles's dxvk-async component instead. Make sure to set DXVK_ASYNC to 1 under environment variables.

Additionally, on nvidia systems you need to also install nvidia's flatpak runtime and make sure it matches your current nvidia driver version, it's not pulled in automatically.

I'm tempted to post my own similar guide focusing on Fedora Kinoite and SteamOS 3 as those are both immutable-root systems and require using flatpaks for installing software. There's also a lot of latency tuning you can do and current pinned guide doesn't cover what you do on more modern distros.
Repentance
426 posts
Joined May 2018
Repentance
Is not the installation with Wine is clearest and optimum?
s3_j0d1
2 posts
Joined August 2020
Topic Starter
s3_j0d1

Nyaaori wrote:

Just a heads up, on systems with vulkan support, it's better to leave out d3dx11 and use bottles's dxvk-async component instead. Make sure to set DXVK_ASYNC to 1 under environment variables.

Additionally, on nvidia systems you need to also install nvidia's flatpak runtime and make sure it matches your current nvidia driver version, it's not pulled in automatically.

I'm tempted to post my own similar guide focusing on Fedora Kinoite and SteamOS 3 as those are both immutable-root systems and require using flatpaks for installing software. There's also a lot of latency tuning you can do and current pinned guide doesn't cover what you do on more modern distros.
Thanks for adding a helpful tips.
We need more people to try it because every system is different (graphics, peripheral, distros, etc) and I'm curious to see the performance and how to fix it (if there any trouble)

Nyaaori wrote:

There's also a lot of latency tuning you can do and current pinned guide doesn't cover what you do on more modern distros.
Can you tell me how to do it?
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-Chocolatada-
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Joined March 2016
-Chocolatada-
I just want to say thank you. I've been trying to install the game on a Debian 10 based system for the past 5 days and I couldn't find any possible way, everytime I tried, it failed, Playonlinux, lutris, different scripts, etc. And finally the game opened without crashing, thank you dude.
Unknown Duck
9 posts
Joined May 2016
Unknown Duck
I don't know why but every time I run the osu!install.exe, osu! installs in the same directory as where my osu!install.exe is placed (it installs in my Downloads folder in my Home directory instead of being in the bottles container and in .../AppData/Local/osu!). I know you can change the install directory within the osu!installer and there's even a countdown for that but for some reason, it's not appearing for me and it just goes straight to the installation. Is this due to Bottles or the osu!installer itself and how do I fix this?

I'm running Debian 12.
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klepon_old
10 posts
Joined September 2013
klepon_old
I want to install osu again after my niece's request. She wants to play it after see an osu clip from TikTok. She begs me to install it everyday.

I've installed Wine on my laptop. My Wine installation broke after I upgraded it. I can't play Windows game such as older version Touhou anymore. I installed osu stable version, it had problems. I've followed many tricks such as downgrading Wine, Lutris, PlayOnLinux, and some scripts on the internet. But no one worked.

I saw this topics on forum and tried it. And it works. Thanks a lot.

Adds:
I have a little bit issue on my laptop. App runs smoothly, but has a little bit stutter on sliders. I'm running Linux Mint 21 64 bit with bottles prefix on 64 bit too. Is there any configuration to repair it?
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notabirdhater
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Joined May 2018
notabirdhater
thanks for this guide, the dependencies section helped a lot!

would say this feels nicer to play on gnome wayland than using osu-wine, but fullscreen was a little buggy. i personally had to set the game to borderless fullscreen in the osu settings disabling minimize on alt tab helps reduce the bugginess while also letting the game run at more than display refresh rate. (also, enabling obs-vkcapture helps reduce latency for some reason - makes it feel a lot more comparable to playing on x11 with osu-wine). but pretty smooth imo
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