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Discord on Flathub is now official (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (27 children)

What alternative would you suggest if I just want to talk to my mates while gaming? I gave up on setting up TeamSpeak after like an hour and many crashes and errors. I was a TeamSpeak fan for many years when using windows, but on Linux I highly dislike it.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Element has been working for me and my friends. At the moment, it just embeds Jitsi within the client to do group calls (which works fine. Jisti isn't bad by any means), but native group calls are being worked on and are currently in beta!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wish they would work on proper voice channels like discord has. The whole 'meeting room' zoom call style thing is obnoxious to use, and the screen sharing has so much lag.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are "Video Rooms". They're in beta too.
    Also, screen sharing is done via the same platform agnostic web APIs every other Electron-based app uses, though.
    I got rid of screen capture induced lag by switching to Wayland.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    i just got matrix up and running. its a federated ommunications specification. id invite you to mine but im still ironing things out. check out https://www.matrix.org

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Does matrix have voice chat, video chat?

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nope.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it didnt even take that long to look, why lie?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Mumble (is comoletely free software and has a better quality even than teamspeak)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And requires setting up and managing a server, which costs time and money and requires a certain degree of expertise. Also it can’t really be used as a primary chat app, so you still have to use another app for that. It also doesn’t support features like livestreams so that’s another application you may need.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There is a pretty similar looking and function called Revolt that could be useful for getting people that are used to Discord to switch. I think they also have a long goal of being able to send and receive messages and calls with Discord. Obviously they don't have that atm, but it is open-source and nice to at least know about in the event a quick exodus of Discord is needed.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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