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GNOME Twitch is a rather slick desktop Twitch viewer

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Today I tried out GNOME Twitch [Github, Official Site], a native desktop application for watching Twitch streams and it's really quite amazing.

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A shot I took today of the application running on my Arch Xfce desktop.

You can login to your Twitch account, so you can see who you follow and easily chat as it has chat integrated too. You can select the video quality, so if you're on a low speed connection (and Twitch allows it for that streamer) you can watch in lower quality.

It's a lot nicer than using Chrome or Firefox to watch a Twitch stream that's for sure.

It's regularly worked on too, with commits happening constantly. It has packages for Arch in the AUR, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian and a Flatpak.

It's open source under the GPL, so anyone can join in and help with bugs and features.

I was so impressed, I showed it to the girlfriend who now also has it installed. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Micromegas Mar 10, 2017
And then there is the well supported and maintained Kodi which also has an add-on for Twitch in it's official repository which you can access inside Kodi. Kodi is probably in every distribution repository nowadays but you need a fairly new version because Twitch changed their API some time ago and older versions of the Twitch Kodi add-on might not work.

You can choose different resolution options and your Twitch username so your followed streamers are easily accessible via Kodi.
Kallestofeles Mar 10, 2017
Horrible captcha, but once you get past it, it looks to be the best twitch app on linux so far.
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