My experience with Discord on Linux

In all honesty I just use the browser now as that's been the best experience with Discord for me.

My experience with Discord, period:

~/.config/discord/settings.json

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true,

I mean there is always the flatpak version

Use the Flatpak or better yet stop using Discord.

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

Discord is trash software. Always has been.

i just use this bad boy

Flatpak

All that work, and it's a web wrapper.

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

So. Very important for everyone here. You can bypasss the forced discord update.

To disable the update check, add the line "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true to ~/.config/discord/settings.json

I'm running with native electron (sure, electron) but it works great tbh

Just use a flatpak sheesh

https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop

Why do you need to update so much, Discord? What the hell are you doing? Suspicious. Very suspicious.

I've been using the browser client.

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 time

Yeah this is annoying.

"It's your lucky day!"

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.

Vesktop is nice.

Everyone here is shouting flatpak, but I'm gonna shout flatpak of Vesktop!

discord.com/app

idk i just use the website

for some reason it crashes on Firefox when i enable audio, but my mic doesn't work anyway so you know it's not a big deal

edit: fix typos

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.

I started using Discord in 2015 and around 2019 uninstalled it in favor of using it exclusively through a web browser (blocking as much of it's nonsense as possible). Discord takes too many resources hostage if anyone in your server is streaming something, even if you're not watching it. I don't have that issue when using Element (Matrix), Jitsi or any of Steam's broadcasting tools. The only reason I haven't deleted my Discord account yet is because some people I hold dear are incapable of trying something better nowadays (even when they already have it installed as is the case of Steam).

Ever since the update where screen sharing works FINALLY natively in plasma I just used the flatpak discord

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

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

On my aging laptop, the Discord app consumed RAM like Goku at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Moving back to a browser tab eliminated the overhead from Electron and was dramatically more performant as a result. This completely side-steps any upgrade and/or snap issues.

me: so ppa?

discord: no ppa only deb

I don't use a Debian based distro like Ubuntu anymore (arch BTW), but could you not just add their repo and do an apt update && apt upgrade?

Honestly, I really dislike apt and how you have to add random repos which is why I don't use it anymore. I moved away even before snaps.

Ps, I love the AUR.

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

Mine updates with all my other stuff. Not sure why you'd need to download it every time. I installed it with pacman.

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.

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

Discord sure does feel like a 0.0.x version

Idk about you, but for me Manjaro just auto manages that via AUR. dont even have to do anything.

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

Flatpak 🤷

It's not just me!

I have been using goofcord, its functional. I am moving to matrix after the enshittification of discord though.

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.

In endeavour all I need to do is close it, run yay to update, open. "Lucky Day" gone

My experience with matrix be like: (I still prefer it to discord)

I'm going to link this thread the next time someone screeches at me for using windows. The responses in here are so diverse and some of them are just perfection.

Why run an app when you can just run it in a browser tab?

Had zero issue with the flatpak.

I fucking hate discord.

No wait.

I fucking hate the people who use discord.

Help I use Debian on the desktop and don't understand the implications

My biggest problem with it is that the updates are always kinda late hitting AUR.

Do they have a repo?

I highly suggest using LegCord!

It's a way of controlling the software .... it would be a lot more difficult to make changes, even change settings or adjusting the software from time to time if it's constantly being updated every week.

I noticed this with Chrome ... a few years ago, there were lots of settings, hacks and changes and adjustments you could make to the browser to avoid tracking, advertising and all sorts of other things and to generally make it run faster. All that activity is lost now because Chrome literally updates itself every week.

I run Linux and my software doesn't update it self that much ... the only thing that updates itself every week is Chrome .... the entire package about 50-60MB every time, wipes itself and reinstalls a new version every time ... so any changes you had made to the software or any attempt at adjusting anything in the deep software is all lost and reset over and over again.

There is a ppa though. I trust the guy behind it, he has good history

Just because there is a new minor version you don't to update it immediately. Except for security updates of course.

lol this is me. I know there are easier solutions but I can't bring myself to use any of them.

this is my expierance but with jami

I’d rather just use a snap than that dumb shit.

How about legcord?

I assumed there was something wrong with my setup because this UX is insane. Good to know it’s just shit.

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.