• Cossty@lemmy.world
    45·
    2 months ago

    If you really need to use discord, use the flatpak version or better yet, use Vesktop.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      7·
      2 months ago

      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?

  • 0xf@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That’s mint tho. I’ve used it off and on for more than a decade myself and I’m still scared of other distros.

      It really is baby’s first distro. Easy mode for someone coming from windows. And I love it for that. I really do. But im not a programmer. I would be lost as a mfer with some distros.

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I am a programmer and I love Mint, because I can just use it instead of having one more thing in my life that I have to fuss with.

        • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yknow what this reminds me of? Chefs and how at work they make these masterpieces while at home they’re making like grilled cheese and slightly fancy ramen. Its great.

        • Bluewing@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          I think that’s often the case for anyone that has spent enough time using Linux. After 20 years, I just can’t be bothered with needing to be all that proactive in managing any distro. I just want to use the bloody stupid box. I’m enjoying using Aurora right now. Atomic distros require even less effort from me.

        • Enzy@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 months ago

          Mint is for those who don’t need to brag about things.

          For civilized folk, you know.

  • radish@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I wrote a small bash script to curl the latest .deb, install it, and delete it because i was having this problem too. shame it can’t just auto-update or let me use the old version

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    It behaves the same way on Windows, but is a little better at cleaning up after itself when it updates. It’s poorly architected.

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      10·
      2 months ago

      The Windows version definitely does not open your default browser to download a new installation package which you then need to install yourself.

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
    262·
    2 months ago

    check out vencord (or vesktop) just in time for discord to completely enshittify. while you’re looking, consider something like revolt chat instead?

    • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      Revolt is still extremely beta, at least last I checked it out?

      Vesktop (on flatpak I believe) is just a discord wrapper with plugin support, actually a really great experience!!

      Still, here’s hoping literally any FOSS discord clone gets fully off the ground sometime soon. The enshitification is so fucking real.

    • Colloidal@programming.dev
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh that looks nice! I was using Dissent which is very light on resources but I kept running on a couple issues. I’ll try that.

      • Kyouki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Another one I can recommend is equibop (web version wrap of Discord) and equicord (discord client modification with vencord)

    • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      2 months ago

      Since the latest big discord update I had issues with Vesktop, other people could only watch my streams if they were in it when I started streaming and even then it usually would break after a few minutes. But I might try it again in the next few days to see if it got fixed

      Edit: I quickly checked the GitHub repo and the latest release was 2 months ago so probably not :(

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      11·
      2 months ago

      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?

      • poinck@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        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?

    • paequ2@lemmy.today
      17·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • squinky@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 months ago

      Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    11·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        362·
        2 months ago

        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.

          • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            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.

            • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              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.

              • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                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).

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          14·
          2 months ago

          Thats the thing…there’s no way ill convince people to get off discord now that they just got comfortable with it all.

            • applemao@lemmy.world
              71·
              2 months ago

              Yeah exactly or they just say we are trying to be superior and annoying tech autists xD

          • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
            6·
            2 months ago

            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.

        • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 months ago

          That’s great news. Well now discord rewards users for viewing ads, it’s looking like time to leave soon.

            • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
              4·
              2 months ago

              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.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      24·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      71·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • Tyoda@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.