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Rose @MewMus1/13/2023, 3:28 AM

Discord pushed an update for it's Linux desktop app that is only available in pure tar ball or as a Ubuntu optimized Deb package

It's currently broken on my openSUSE install in every install-able form I can find... so short of me compiling the software from source (I don't want to do that) I guess I get to wait until some poor soul (not from discord) ports it to the repositories I actually use

This shit shouldn't be hard... Discord is abandon ware at this point on Linux. Like I knew it was bad... but if I'm going to be having to run my client in a chrome tab for full functionality at all times already, I may as well be on a chromebook or smartphone

I know someone will fix this in a few days, but like FFS, there is no way in hell I'd be able to get everyone to move away from Discord, despite terrible policy bs and the constant fear of various scams/hacks, but like I have genuine disdain for the app and company at this point

If modern software keeps moving the way it has been, I may end up going "fuck it" and becoming a Samsung Dex user or something, I don't know at this point, god I hate venture capital funded orgs

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Nibble 🦄@NibbleNueva1/13/2023, 3:34 AM

Handy workaround for this!

In ~/.config/discord/settings.json, add "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true next to the existing options in there.

Rose @MewMus1/13/2023, 3:37 AM

Thank you so much! I can at least use the old version now...

...still really stupid how broken the delivery and overall attitude of Discord is on *nix though ;w;

Lacey 🐇@SenshellShark1/13/2023, 3:35 AM

Discord is so baaaaad. I really want an alternative but it would have to be better in multiple ways so I can still keep most of my friends together.

Rose @MewMus1/13/2023, 3:39 AM

The only viable alternative atm is Guilded, who to my understanding actually have pretty decent Linux support

But they are owned by the Roblox guys so unless Discord fully shits the bed I don't want to trade one bad company for another...

Lacey 🐇@SenshellShark1/13/2023, 3:49 AM

Guilded is very capable, full of features, probably better than Discord at least from what I tried. And apart from not having my close friends on there, yeah Roblox is disgusting.

I don't know... maybe a federated system isn't so bad when it comes to direct messaging, but there is still the lack of features when it comes to screen sharing.

meow_d @meow-d1/16/2023, 12:40 PM

there's an open source alternative called Revolt, but from what i've seen it's a bit unpolished

Lacey 🐇@SenshellShark1/16/2023, 12:54 PM

I've tried it a while back, it's okay. It still does not have screen sharing but I will revisit it once it has that implemented

Plum @PlumPanAD1/13/2023, 3:43 PM

There's always snappy, if you lean that way.

The only good thing Snap ever did for me was let me know just how invasive discord wants to be on my system, in the name of "desktop integration". I don't really care if people on discord know I'm playing a game or not, and I'd rather it not try and see a full process list in the name of doing that, so I just spin up a separate browser instance for it now.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I remember that chost from before now. This method mentioned will probably make streaming from discord broken or very resource heavy. :(

Rose @MewMus1/13/2023, 4:08 PM

There really is no winning when it comes to this broken App ;w;

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