Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
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Unified launcher for Windows games on Linux
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-08-22 · latest 2026-06-25
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…them and just install them as a setup and it automatically creates a app shortcut I can open. [1] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
comment by AyanamiKaine · 2026-06-25 · in Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates -
…it as it tends to work much more seamlessly for games (i did disable its autoupdates though). [0] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
comment by badsectoracula · 2026-03-25 · in Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains -
…doesn't have to mean Wine. It can launch apps via Proton too (and so can Heroic). I think it uses https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher behind the scenes, not sure, but so far I haven't run into any issues with this approach.
comment by graynk · 2025-09-02 · in WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration -
…had some problems with wine and I discovered umu to be pretty straightforward and easy to use. [1] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
comment by deathlock · 2025-09-02 · in WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration -
There are now third party launchers for proton, such as: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher As well as "game libraries": Lutris, Bottles, Heroic Personally I use this alias to launch an exe via proton: alias…
comment by ftk_ · 2024-08-22 · in Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux