Linux Gaming Gets A Big Boost From A 12-Year-Old Ubuntu Developer


Late last year, young developer Rudra Saraswat gifted Ubuntu gamers with a great GUI tool. The cleverly-named "Gamebuntu" utility was effectively a bash script that automatically installed a veritable kitchen sink of gaming tools and then used a convenient overlay for finding and launching things like Steam, VLC, OBS, Twitch, Lutris, Discord, and others. Now, he has announced a completely new version that takes Gamebuntu in a different, and more elegant, direction.
“I’ve completely rewritten Gamebuntu so that people have the freedom to choose what they want to install," Rudra says. "You can choose from 4 launchers, 2 kernels, 7 tools and 1 streaming app."
The new approach for Gamebuntu is refreshingly reminiscent of what Ubuntu Budgie is adding to its welcome app for version 22.04. Instead of a large install routine that sets up a predetermined gaming environment, Gamebuntu 1.0 lets the user choose exactdly which software to install.
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