I’d rather just use a snap than that dumb shit.
~/.config/discord/settings.json
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,
Ooohh a useful response.
Wait seriously? Does this stop it from forcing me to update it when an update is available but it’s not in my package manager yet?
Yes. I can confirm, it works even on Gentoo. But I stick to the Flatpak version, anyway, because there I was able to tell it to use Xwayland instead of wayland directly (through Flatseal).
It seems the wayland support isn’t great yet and it tries to grab keys combination that are reserved for my window manager (Gnome). In the flatpak sandbox I don’t have any issues.
Only game running game detection will not work in the sandbox.
Or is there even a setting to tell it, using the X11 backend so that the keybind issues for the native version go away?
I get the message there’s an upgrade. Say I’ll do it myself, go to console.
yay -S discord (or more likely just do an overall upgrade and reboot, what they hell)
Restart discord.
Oh lord please don‘t do that. Partial upgrades are not supported. You WILL break your system sooner or later.
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Yep. Also, I did clarify that I would usually do an overall upgrade at the same time.
I just use the flatpak on arch, can’t be bothered to have a link to a deb or do a system update when discord wants a update.
Do they have a repo?
Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I’m gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!
https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
I like that I can make the light theme not ass
I liked this one over Vesktop (if you use Desktop discord) https://github.com/Equicord/Equicord
Love seeing me some alternatives in the wild
Browser. website. basically the same experience without weird and/or shit integration into anything, share resources with the browser that’s open anyway, works fine, and allow easy customization because it’s a webpage anyway and you get to mess with the CSS/HTML/JS if you want to.
lol this is me. I know there are easier solutions but I can’t bring myself to use any of them.
In all honesty I just use the browser now as that’s been the best experience with Discord for me.
When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.
In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.
Yup this. Tho if matrix gets desktop streaming I’m gone.
get fluffychat :)
Element already has desktop streaming as an experimental feature. Worked fine last i tested it. Currently planning how to trick my social circle into using it.
I also want to go check out the new TeamSpeak, it’s supposed to be a decent Discord alternative - Even though Discord originally replaced it.
Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.
Fr, I have tried but unfortunately my friends are mostly normal people
Yeah exactly or they just say we are trying to be superior and annoying tech autists xD
I have been using Discord since the beginning in 2015 and back then I got people to Discord because it was cheap and offered more features. Currently the only way I convince people to swtich from Discord (or from Whatsapp) is either if they are privacy focussed or the alternative is way more convient or cheaper.
That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.
I fucking hate discord. Hope they ruin it.
Discord was really good in the first couple years. Way better than the alternatives in almost everything except sound quality. And getting virusses wasn’t as easy as it was on TeamSpeak3 back then.
How did you solve the audio issue with element for Linux?
Element has audio issues on Linux? Didn’t notice it when I tested whether Matrix had what I needed (a month past). I’ll see if it screws up if I try again now.
Audio doesn’t seem to stream over Element regardless of operating system, I’m on Debian 12 and my buddies are on Windows, neither stream audio.
Also Mobile devices lack streaming out-right.
That’s weird. I just tested it with a friend (I’m on Endeavour, she’s on Win11, the server is VPS with Debian running the newest Synapse and Element-web). Audio works fine both ways with no mic config required, streaming is a little laggy when viewing the screen and stream next to each other, but that’s all.
EDIT: No, you’re right. Audio within streams seem to fail. I remember Discord having the same problem (hence why I use Vesktop), but if Windows also suffers this shortcoming? I’m pretty sure I remember it working a month ago, so there should be a bug report in Synapse (or element).
This has been an issue for over 4 years. not sure why it seems to be neglected by the maintainers/contributors.
Edit: Maybe it was patched? I don’t have the time at the moment to dive deep into this topic, will try to get back to this later today.
Edit 2: briefly looking around seems like this persisted in 2023
Discord has become really annoying to use with all the ads. I confine it to my browser because I don’t trust it.
With that said, I used to run Flatpak version and it never had this issue.
Vesktop
Same! Never have to worry about updates anymore its great!
Oh shit I forgot that was an option lmao. Deleting the app once I get home lol
Third party apps are way better than the native client
When I do, audio slowly shifts to one ear only, perhaps over 20m. Then I have to leave the channel and come back to reset it. This does not happen anywhere else, and also doesn’t happen on the desktop app, so I have to use that.
Recently, while it was “out of date” and refusing to run but not yet updated in the Arch repo, I started wondering why I don’t just use the website. I now use the website.
It behaves the same way on Windows, but is a little better at cleaning up after itself when it updates. It’s poorly architected.
The Windows version definitely does not open your default browser to download a new installation package which you then need to install yourself.
I mean there is always the flatpak version
I must be getting old.
Yep. I didn’t realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.
I actually use the Vesktop Flatpak. It’s got working screen sharing with audio on Wayland (not sure if the official client has implemented that yet) and it has Vencord preinstalled for plugins and themes.
Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.
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Vesktop is nice.
yay discord
Yes.
Even screen share is fixed in wayland now! I believe that the flatpak version was on the cusp of supporting it too so it might already. I kinda stopped caring about it when everything worked, which is certainly a good sign.
