GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)

Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider has released the latest GE-Proton 9-2 with a bunch of upgrades, plus some news about the Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher.

As a reminder: GE-Proton is a community-built version of Proton, not supported by Valve, that often has fixes Valve can't distribute (sometimes for legal reasons, other times for more QA testing time). For GE-Proton 9-2 the changes are:

• wine updated to latest bleeding edge.
• dxvk updated to latest git.
• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git.
• dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git.
• upstream proton changes added.
• upstream steamclient changes added.
• ULWGL-protonfixes renamed to umu-protonfixes per upstream project.
• previous noted wmv playback regression appears to be fixed now -- working with ultimate marvel vs capcom 3 again.

Pictured - ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3

ULWGL (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher) as noted above has now been renamed to umu. What is it? A unified launcher for windows games on linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Linux Runtime/Steam Runtime Tools that Valve uses for proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam. So it's not a launcher in the sense of Heroic or Lutris, but a tool used by other launchers to properly run Proton outside of Steam.

About the renaming posting on Mastodon they said:

So, we've decided on "umu" as the rename for ULWGL.

umu "oo-moo" -- A chamber used for baking or heating.

It fits the theme of pressure-vessel, steam, etc, and it's short, easy to say in a conversation, (and jokingly uwu).