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Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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Anyone have screenshots?
There’s not really anything to screenshot? This isn’t a launcher in the sense of a GUI that launches games. It will be used by other launchers Heroic, Lutris, Bottles, etc to better run games the way Steam does.
Increased compatibility, less issues with games not loading. Essentially it will allow non-Steam launchers to run games under wine more like Steam’s proton does.
Ah, so they just built the middleware, not a UI. That's not what launcher typically means in this space, but fair enough. Thanks for clearing it up.
Yes, exactly. The github readme has been pretty confusing, especially since the project changed names and there are still some references to the old name. But it was already usable as a runner in Lutris before launch and works much better for me than 8-26 which is pretty out of date now! I play a lot of non-Steam games.
Is there a guide or something that we could use? I'm trying hard to find anywhere on how to actually use it, but I think I just fail.
PS. I'm also running debian 12.7 and umu needs a newer version of a python depedency that debian 12 doesnt have yet, so I added the debian 13 (testing) repo, but while it worked, I think it may have also messed up my debian installation or something, lol (good thing I'm still testing debian).