{"id":51843,"date":"2026-08-14T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=51843"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:57:33","slug":"faugus-launcher-2-1-0-released-with-amazon-games-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/faugus-launcher-2-1-0-released-with-amazon-games-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Faugus Launcher 2.1.0 Released with Amazon Games Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51620\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/faugus-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today.<\/p>\n<p>This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/faugus-amazongames.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"660\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/faugus-amazongames.webp 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/faugus-amazongames-218x300.webp 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides new games support, this version continue improving the Flatpak and AppImage support. <\/p>\n<p>Since the last release, the Faugus installed as Flatpak package shows all the storage devices in the file chooser dialog. In the new 2.1.0, it now supports the Proton compatibility layer from Steam installed as Flatpak.<\/p>\n<p>And, the AppImage package has been updated with some fixes for the saving images, extracting icons, as well as not working on some Distributions issues.<\/p>\n<p>For Linux games that don&#8217;t run with the Steam Runtime, there&#8217;s now an option to disable UMU. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51845\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51845\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/disable-umu.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"660\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/disable-umu.webp 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/disable-umu-218x300.webp 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">option to disable UMU for Linux games<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other changes are mostly translation updates and minor UI updates. It now prefers PNG icon if available then fall back to ICO icon. And, the system tray icon is now running in a separate process.<\/p>\n<p>For the Covers and SteamGridDB interface modes that use the zoom slider, a new &#8220;Zoom&#8221; setting is added to allow user to manually hide that slider. <\/p>\n<p>For users with many Steam game shortcuts, it now renumbers the remaining shortcuts after removing a shortcut, so their numeric IDs are consecutive and correctly ordered. <\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reinforced games file handling to prevent data loss.<\/li>\n<li>Fix the filechooser not opening in the migration process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Get Faugus launcher<\/h3>\n<p>The official release note as well as the installer packages are available in the Github via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Faugus\/faugus-launcher\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faugus Releases<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Depends on your Linux distribution, choose download the <code>.deb<\/code> package for Debian\/Ubuntu base, <code>.rpm<\/code> for Fedora, or <code>pkg.tar.zst<\/code> Arch. While, the universal <b>AppImage<\/b> package works in most Linux, though it&#8217;s so far for Intel\/AMD only.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en\/apps\/io.github.Faugus.faugus-launcher\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak package<\/a> which runs in sandbox for most Linux distributions, and available to install in this <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en\/apps\/io.github.Faugus.faugus-launcher\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak package<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today. This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1189],"class_list":["post-51843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}