Citizen Launcher 0.9.0

Citizen Launcher is the distro-neutral successor to Omarchy Citizen.

Goal

Install Linux → install Citizen Launcher → log into RSI → play.

The core is one static Go binary and does not depend on Omarchy. Omarchy is an optional integration under integrations/omarchy/.

Supported targets

Primary targets:

• Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint
• Fedora
• Arch Linux / Omarchy
• openSUSE (generic user install)

Other amd64 Linux distributions can use the generic tarball when they provide a working Vulkan driver and the runtime requirements of the selected Wine runner.

GUI

citizen-launcher gui starts a localhost-only UI from files embedded in the Go binary. Chromium-family browsers open it as a dedicated app window; otherwise it opens in the default browser. No GTK/Qt/WebKit development/runtime package is required by Citizen Launcher itself.

Architecture

Standalone GUI / Omarchy bar integration
                 ↓
           Citizen Launcher
             Go core
                 ↓
 ┌───────────────┼────────────────┐
 Hardware      Wine             RSI Launcher
 readiness     selector          installer
               + self-test
                 ↓
             Wine prefix
                 ↓
       Winetricks + DXVK
                 ↓
          Star Citizen

The managed game stack lives in XDG user directories:

• ~/.config/citizen-launcher
• ~/.local/share/citizen-launcher
• ~/.local/state/citizen-launcher
• ~/.cache/citizen-launcher

Existing omarchy-citizen data is migrated when possible.

Build

./build.sh

Install (any desktop distro)

./install.sh

For Omarchy plus bar integration:

./install-omarchy.sh

Debian package

./packaging/build-deb.sh

Security boundaries

Citizen Launcher manages its Wine/DXVK/RSI stack entirely as the current user. It does not create passwordless sudo/pacman/apt rules. GPU/kernel/base-system updates remain owned by the distribution.