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.

  • HoloPengin@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    2 months 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

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      2 months 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.

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    2 months ago

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