Running Lutris to manage our games on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Install Lutris On Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux

Lutris is a game manager built for Linux operating systems, and it does its job incredibly well. It has thousands of games in its catalog and works with very little fuss, allowing you to install games from the cloud and keep them up to date. Most games are “one click install” titles, meaning that you shouldn’t have to worry about fiddling with extra configuration to get a Windows game working on Linux. It just works.

Lutris requires Wine in order to ensure a smooth experience. The two work really well together, and that’s because the developers of Lutris also work directly with Wine staging. Since the Lutris developers already program their installers to use the most optimal settings possible, there’s no need to fool around with Winetricks or any of the usual Wine configuration utilities.

If you’re ready to start gaming on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa, follow along as we setup Lutris and its dependencies on our system.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Wine and dependencies
  • How to install Lutris
  • How to install a game on Lutris

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Using PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 20.04 to select apps to install

How to install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux

PlayOnLinux is a graphical front end interface for Wine. And if you don’t know already, Wine is popular software that allows many Windows applications to run on a Linux system. The problem with Wine is that you sometimes have to do quite a bit of configuration to get a particular application to run; we even have quite a few guides about it on this site.

PlayOnLinux basically hides the complexity of Wine to the user, giving you a graphical interface to work with and automating the installation of many popular applications. Contrast this with just using Wine itself, where you’d inevitably be working with the command line more and have to fiddle around with configuration settings to get stuff working right.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa, as well as go through a rundown of how to install some games and software that you’d ordinarily only find available on Windows.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install PlayOnLinux with command line or GUI
  • How to install an app or game within PlayOnLinux

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Blender 3D creation suite on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

How to install Blender on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux Desktop

In this tutorial we will be installing Blender on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Desktop.

WHAT IS BLENDER?
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Reference: https://www.blender.org/about/

In this tutorial you will learn:

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VLC media player on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Ubuntu 20.04 VLC installation

VLC is a free and open-source multimedia player. It supports wide rang of multimedia formats such as MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, BluRays, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install VLC on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Desktop.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install VLC
  • How to install the latest VLC from PPA repository
  • How to install VLC via GNOME graphical user interface
  • How to install extra plugins

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Unable to play the file / Missing decoder on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

Unable to play the file / Missing decoder on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

In this tutorial you will learn how to install all commonly used media codecs and fonts for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa. By default when you attempt to play multimedia file using the default media player the error message appears stating that the video or audio player is unable to play file due the the missing decoder.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install video and audio codes
  • How to check for installed decoders, encoders and codes

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Graphics driver check on Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial will show you how to check what graphics driver your system is currently using and what graphics card model is part of your system’s hardware.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to check what graphics driver your system is using
  • How to check what graphics card model you have

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How to install the NVIDIA drivers on Fedora 32

How to install the NVIDIA drivers on Fedora 32

The NVIDIA Driver is a program needed for your NVIDIA Graphics GPU to function with better performance. It communicates between your Linux operating system, in this case Fedora 32, and your hardware, the NVIDIA Graphics GPU.

The NVIDIA drivers can be installed by using the bash command after stopping the GUI and disabling the nouveau driver by modifying the GRUB boot menu.

To install Nvidia driver on other Linux distributions, follow our Nvidia Linux Driver guide.

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