I fucking hate discord.
No wait.
I fucking hate the people who use discord.
I use Vesktop, it has a flatpak release and flatpak auto-updates it for me. Also it includes Vencord, so I can add as many plugins and custom themes I want.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord
Packaging desktop apps via deb (or other system package managers) is obsolete and should be frowned upon.
cue the angry comments from cranky old people
@gamer @DesertDwellingWeirdo
>discord
>desktop apps
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Also, packaging electron to flatpak sounds most stupid idea ever…Sandboxing proprietary apps and containerising their outdated dependencies is a good thing.
Yes the built in browser sandboxes the website code, but the nodejs part has full freedom to encrypt your stuff and ask for bitcoin ransoms or ai scrape your browser history for better user profiling. YMMV
Idk about you, but for me Manjaro just auto manages that via AUR. dont even have to do anything.
Huh, why does it use the AUR for discord? In Arch it’s just part of the Extra repo.
That repo always seems to lag quite a bit behind official releases. Multiple times on arch I’ve edited config files to have it lie about its version number to get it to keep working.
Samesies, but on EndeavourOS
Why? The browser client is ok.
Not if you need system wide PTT
All that work, and it’s a web wrapper.
When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": trueWhy do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
Does the same on windows. Either they’re constantly changing some really deep stuff that we don’t see or notice, or it’s not actually updating just “checking” for updates or loading but it’s just slow AF.
Nah, this isn’t the launcher doing checks and applying patches, I mean like I gotta download a new .deb (basically .exe) file with an incremental difference in the version number and unpack it over the old install.
Ridiculously frequently. Like, once a week at the very least.
Okay Jesus, I think that’s just someone at discord smoking something.
i just use this bad boy
Btw
Was going to say. I’ve been lucky. My only experience with Discord has been
sudo pacman -S discord. I barely use it, but I have some friends I keep in touch with on it.Yay!
Hell yeah
Oh come on. This is every experience with linux.
I’ve been pretty deep in linux for years and never seen this.
Just use a flatpak sheesh
Ever since the update where screen sharing works FINALLY natively in plasma I just used the flatpak discord
I have to use Discord Canary for that but yeah. Flatpak all the way.
Well that’s just their beta branch of discord, the main branch now has the screen share fix, been using it for a few months now
I just use the web version of discord :)
cause i have more control on the web version and i dislike electron
i cannot leave discord at this timeIf you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.
This. Use Vesktop. Expand the features of Discord while outright blocking the shit.
Seconded on Vesktop. Much better than Discord’s plain client.
Or better yet, host your own TeamSpeak server.
Speaking of which, are there any decent FOSS alternatives? Discord got banned in my homecountry and forcing it through VPN or proxy is a total pain in the ass. Forced my friends to move to TS as that’s what we used back in the day… like a decade ago, but maybe there’s something modern and more open nowadays?
Teamspeak doesn’t even have a fraction of Discord’s features. It’s a bad alternative.
Peersuite
from what i know either Matrix or Revolt
Revolt is more closer to discord but Matrix is better cause it has ee2e, you can host your own server and my favorite feature ClientsAre you looking for something like mumble?
Yeah, voice chat is all we need.
There was a post recently on c/privacy for a self hostable (relaying) peer-to-peer web based option! Its effectively release 1.0 and has some bugs (some serious security ones at the moment), but I think it has lots of promise!!
I’ll go grab the link for the post I saw…
teamspeak 6 (beta) is pretty nice.
Sick! Are you running a Linux client? Last I checked the self-hosted V6 server binary hadn’t released, if it’s finally out I’ll drop a brick!!
no, but afaik you can join ts3 servers on ts6, also tgey have a linux client. but im currently unsure if i installed it via pacman or AUR, but you can download a binary from their website
Nah, still no v6 server. At least, not on their main download page 🥲
I see some recommendations for Vesktop in this thread.
For some reason, launching Vesktop’s Flatpak version presents a blank window. It worked perfectly fine a few weeks ago. Going back several versions doesn’t fix the problem.
Does anyone else have this issue? What doesn’t help is that the repo doesn’t have an issue tracker:
https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
Edit: Appimage version works just fine
Ran into that as well. Just use “repair vesktop” option from the right click menu on the icon when it’s running. That fixes it. You’ll stay logged in etc.
I think it’s an x11/Wayland incompatability issue.
I’ve had this issue too. I’m at work rn so I can’t provide an exact process. But on KDE I right click on Vesktop on the task bar and there is a “fix Vesktop” option that resolved it for me.
