Si you are looking for a way to enjoy a good streaming of your favorite video games surely one of the platforms that you use to view these is Twitch. This has become in recent years a great benchmark for streaming games.
Twitch is an excellent platform to share your gaming skills with others, as well as follow your favorite gamers and to be able to enjoy their games, there are also other platforms that try to be the competition of Twitch, but without a doubt Twitch is a platform totally oriented to gamers.
About the Twitch streaming service
For those users who still do not know Twitch, they should know that this is a platform that offers a live video streaming service that focuses on video games, including "playthroughs" of games played by users, eSports broadcasts, and other events related to video games.
Site content can be viewed live or on demand.
Twitch andIt is designed as a platform for real-time coverage of electronic sports. This includes great coverage of e-sports tournaments, individual player personal streams, and shows that feature game-related content.
A wide variety of channels do Speedruns. Twitch's main page currently shows games based on their audience.
With Twitch you can broadcast and share your games with other people around the world, as well as being able to enjoy the games of others and being able to follow them to be aware of their next broadcasts.
In order to access the Twitch service we must do so with the help of a browser with which we can view the content that we find in it, although unofficially there are clients that provide us with this.
With them we can save some system resources without having to resort to using a browser.
About the Gnome Twitch app
This time we are going to talk about an extension for Gnome that will help us enjoy Twitch from the comfort of our desktop environment.
Gnome Twitch is an application that allows users to enjoy their favorite streams without having to resort to using a browser.
This is an independent tool that makes use of the Twitch API so that users do not have to use their browsers to access Twitch content from their systems.
They can use the app to search and watch broadcast channels either by name or by game.
They can also manage their favorite selections so that they are able to quickly find what they are looking for.
Between its main features of Gnome Twitch that we can highlight, we can find:
- Manage your content effectively.
- Easily search channels and games.
- Follow videos with or without a Twitch account.
- Watch and pause streaming video
- Twitch can connect and integrate chat within the application
- Content management is easy and efficient
- Users can change video quality
How to install GNOME Twitch on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
Si do you want to install this application on your system we can do it as follows. Gnome Twitch can be installed on Ubuntu, as long as we have the necessary packages.
The first of them is the "restricted-extra" package which will provide us with the H.264 decoding software which is necessary for the application to work perfectly in our system.
To install this package we must open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and execute the following command in it:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Once this package is installed in the system, we can install the application in our system, only We must execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-twitch
And that's it, we can start enjoying our favorite streams from the comfort of our Linux desktop.