The Ubuntu Summit 2024 has been and gone, and with it we had a lot of good talks but with our focus on here with gaming there’s two that stand out that you may wish to have a look at. Currently the talks haven’t been split up so they’re across three big livestreams.
On Day 2 there was a presentation from Paweł Lidwin of the Heroic Games Launcher project, a cross-platform free and open source launcher for Epic Games, GOG and Amazon Prime Games. The talk gives a brief overview on what they’ve been working on like UWP/WinRT in Wine, Comet for GOG multiplayer features and more. But Lidwin also does a quick little sneak peek intro on a new project called Maxima Launcher, an open source replacement for EA Desktop / Origin that will eventually get Heroic integration too.
Skip to 8:43:32 for the Heroic talk:
Then on Day 3 we had a presentation from Thomas Crider, also known as GloriousEggroll, who made GE-Proton (originally called Proton-GE) on the creation of UMU the unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It’s a nice overview for people confused on how UMU works and what it’s actually for. The talk goes over how Steam actually runs games on Linux, and how UMU deals with running Proton outside of Steam along with the UMU Database that has a bunch of game-specific tweaks to run them properly.
For this one skip to 1:03:34:
All the details can be found on the summit page.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
