Nexus Launcher
Your Microsoft Store PC games, on Linux.
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Nexus Launcher is an independent, unofficial project built on Xodus. It is not an official project or release from the upstream Xodus developers.
Please report all issues encountered with Nexus Launcher only in the Nexus Launcher repository, not in the upstream Xodus issue tracker or support channels.
Nexus Launcher includes its own changes, so a problem in Nexus Launcher does not necessarily indicate a problem in upstream Xodus.
An Xbox-inspired launcher built on Xodus,
using our patched Nexus backend and Nexus Runtime.
Browse the Store, install games you own or can access through a subscription,
and play with a managed runtime family. Xbox sign-in and cloud saves are available
for supported games.
Preview with sample account data.
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Translation guide
Install
Download the latest Linux AppImage from Releases, make it executable and open it. Release assets are named Nexus-Launcher-<version>-<arch>.AppImage with a matching .sha512sum sidecar. Existing Xodus-Nexus-... release assets remain available for existing installations. Launcher versions before 0.5 only recognize the older asset names for in-app updates; use the installer or download the latest AppImage once, then later versions update in place. Stable releases currently ship for x86_64. Experimental ARM64 support requires matching native launcher, backend and runtime builds, compatible graphics drivers and FEX for x86 Windows games.
The current x86_64 runtime requires glibc 2.38 or newer (for example Ubuntu 24.04 or a current SteamOS, Fedora or Arch installation). Ubuntu 22.04 does not meet this requirement.
For an application-menu installation on supported distributions:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/domsvoboda/nexus-launcher/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
On first startup, the launcher installs and verifies the Nexus backend in
the background so you can sign in during setup. Install the Nexus Runtime
from Settings before launching games. A valid purchase or subscription is required.
If passkey sign-in gets stuck, choose Continue in browser in the sign-in
window. This option requires Google Chrome, either a native installation or the
Flatpak version available through Discover. Other browsers are not supported.
Setup guide and SteamOS requirements
Uninstall
Close Nexus Launcher and its games, then remove the application-menu installation without sudo:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/domsvoboda/nexus-launcher/main/scripts/uninstall.sh | bash
Games, saves, settings, downloaded runtimes, wallet credentials and system packages are kept. Installations made with older Xodus-Nexus-... asset names are removed by the same script.
For a custom installation, use the same XODUS_NEXUS_PREFIX and XDG_DATA_HOME as during installation.
To preview the files, download the script and run bash uninstall.sh --dry-run.
If you only downloaded an AppImage manually, delete that AppImage instead.
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