Surely many of you do not know the name of the Discord application. This application is quite popular among the most gamer users but for the rest it is quite unknown.
Discord is a video calling and instant messaging application oriented to the world of video games which helps players communicate with each other. Discord can also be used as a video calling application, although its main function is communication between players who are playing a game.
This instant messaging app has evolved and now has the snap format for installation, which makes it possible for users to use Discord on Ubuntu or any other distribution that uses the snap format.
Discord can be used as a great alternative to Skype or Pidgin
Discord use the WebRTC protocol as well as the VoIP protocol, like other applications such as Skype, so many users not only use it as an application for video games but also as a substitute for Skype. A very interesting substitute because it works like a 2 in 1, that is, it will save us space on the hard disk.
Discord snap package can now be installed on Ubuntu or in its official flavors. Installation using the snap package would look like this:
sudo snap install discord
If we do not have the snap function, we must first write the following lines and execute them, before installing discord:
sudo apt install snapd-xdg-open
This will help us to have the Discord app in our Ubuntu and also have it with the latest updates, without the rest of the applications affecting the operation of the application or without the application problems affecting the operation of Ubuntu.
Thus, the Discord application seems a good option to play video games like Battle of wesnoth o 0 AD or simply as a complement to the Steam platform Do not you think?