Late last year, 12-year old developer Rudra Saraswat gifted Ubuntu gamers with a great GUI tool. The “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.”
Instead of a large install routine that sets up a predetermined gaming environment, Gamebuntu 1.0 lets the user choose exactly which software to install.
Here’s what Gamebuntu 1.0 offers up via its current AppImage on GitLab, broken down by category:
Launchers:
- Steam
- Heroic/Epic
- Minigalaxy (GOG)
- Lutris
Kernels:
- Low-latency kernel
- Xanmod kernel
Social:
- Discord
Tools:
- Gamemode
- GOverlay
- MangoHud
- NoiseTorch
- OpenRGB
- Piper
- Polychromatic (Razer)
- Protonup-Qt
- VLC
- Wine (with wine-binfmt to run Windows executables directly)
Streaming Apps:
- OBS Studio
Rudra encourages you to add your own suggestions to his Ubuntu Discourse thread.
(All information was provided by Forbes)