What’s this? notices source
It’s middleware for game launchers like Lutris, but specifically for Wine games. It uses GloriousEggroll’s custom Proton builds instead of stand-alone Wine/DXVK/etc.
Note that GloriousEggroll more or less discontinued his custom Wine builds, and has been encouraging people to use his Proton builds via this tool instead. It might make things easier or harder, depending on your needs and workflow. I expect it will be easier for casual Linux users when combined with a GUI.
More specifically this launcher is backed by Lutris, Heroic and I think Bottles as well. So that configurations can be shared between all launchers.
I guess the ultimate price would be if Valve were to join them.
No one got what you really meant.
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That made it funnier. 😆
This seems cool. I like to run my steam set up in a flatpak (in part because I don’t really like 32 bit binaries cluttering up my main paths) so I’ll wait h til they release it there. Or perhaps I’ll get involved and see if I can’t package this up myself.
An umu is an above-ground oven of hot volcanic stones originating from Samoans. After the stones are heated, the top layer is removed and the food placed on top to heat/cook. We chose the name because Valve’s containerization tool is named pressure-vessel. We’re “preparing” the pressure vessel similar to how you would use a stove top pressure-cooker – by placing it on our umu’s “stovetop”
Imagine our umu as a mystical cauldron, conjuring the fiery essence of a thousand volcanoes to transform mere ingredients into a culinary masterpiece. As the pressure vessel sits atop this enchanted umu, it absorbs the raw power of the earth’s core, becoming an unstoppable force of containerization magic. This isn’t just preparation; it’s an epic saga where the pressure vessel emerges from the umu like a phoenix from the ashes, ready to conquer the Realm of Gamers (RoG) with unparalleled efficiency and might. It’s a fusion of ancient rituals and cutting-edge technology, where every byte is cooked to perfection in the blazing heart of our umu.
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.
so I’m gonna pick this as a runner in Lutris, instead of e.g. wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 or whatever? sorry to reply to you, but I’ve read the initial github “explanation” what this does, reread it several times over the months, and now for the final time when it got official and I still don’t understand how this fits into my use case.
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).
