Fuck discord.
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This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn't care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub's mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.
That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.
There is also bitwig with an official flatpak
So it does! I didn't know that. Admittedly, I don't actually use that much proprietary software on Linux-based systems, so my knowledge is limited. It'd be interesting if Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve were one day distributed with Flatpak, although Blackmagic Design believes Flatpak can't handle DaVinci Resolve's needs.
But hey, a community-built Flatpak for Resolve exists already.
screenshare with audio when
When they decide to use Electron that's not 5 major versions out of date, but that's not happening
I will never not hate Javascript. I hate all web dev nonsense. What a huge mess that all is.
Javascript itself is not the issue. You can have horrible code written in any language, and this is exactly what this is. The management behind Discord are sinking the company
They're already using an Electron version that supports audio sharing iirc, they just default to their custom implementation which doesn't work on Linux
You could route your desktop audio into your mic, with the big downside thst the other party wont be able to control the volume independently.
They haven’t updated their website yet. It still says to download the deb package or tar.gz package. No mention of the flatpak.
Hopefully they update it at some point.
I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.
Download Armcord instead 🙃
just so people are aware:
third party clients are against Discord's ToS. with that out of the way, looks really cool and I'll give it a try!
If you must use discord for some reason use the web version in librewolf
Meeh, Void has it in the packages, but I don't use it, too confusing for a messaging app if you ask me.
If you haven't been forced into it by your friends/communities, then definitely avoid it if you can
Yeah, it was for a game, but I just said f it, too confusing for me.
Nice!
Now I’ve just got to work out why mine has suddenly started crashing on startup with GPU errors.
FYI There are also open source discord clients available:
- Discordo is a nice CLI to use Discord
- ArmCord: Full Open Source Discord client with themes, etc.
- gtkcord4 & gtkcord 3: Both are simple GTK Clients for Discord
Third party clients are against Discord’s terms of service, so use at your own risk.
dont know what happened to it, but today its a 404 page https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord
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