umu-launcher 1.1.1 released | First official release of UMU launcher! - eviltoast
Release Release 1.1.1 · Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
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First official release of UMU launcher! Should work inside both flatpak and snap We do not have official builds for flatpak or snap yet, but instructions are provided on building and using for bo...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20491286

For those unaware, about umu-launcher

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    Brilliant stuff. We need independence from Valve as much as Valve needs independence from Windows. This will only benefit all of us in the long run

    • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I didn’t think the project was about independence from Valve, moreso about avoiding duplication of effort among Bottles/Heroic/Lutris and Linux gaming support in general.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    This is really big. Having the same set of fixes across wine distributions in just one release is a huge step forward

  • HoloPengin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    “we chose the name because of…”

    Nah they just wanted an excuse to not use UWU, since this was originally Universal Wine Launcher iirc