anyway if you are having this problem on arch, go here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discord

rat guys are trying to fight but the discord update nag window keeps popping up and the lead rat is trying to fix it with cachyos hello "i'm gonna try reinstalling packages guys i will be right there"

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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Discord is where information goes to die

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Vesktop is the way.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Yeah Discord has been wacky on Linux lately, they pushed maybe 4 different updates the past week that forced you to update the package immediately.

    Pro tip: Sync the package manager database before trying to update. It could tell you there are no updates when it's just pacman being out of date.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Had this specific issue a couple days ago, but, to make it worse, the up-to-date package was not yet available. So discord would straight up not start at all.

    So, to add another tip: telling discord to shut up about updates is the only reasonable response to that bs in my opinion. I'll update when I want to, thank you very much. Just add "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true in the settings file at ~/.config/discord/settings.json to put this software in its place.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, on debian (and derivatives):

    Use the official build, but you are forced to update manually at each new update

    Use the flatpak build, but can't use screen sharing

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Today my Windows work machine would randomly lose mouse pointer use on file explorer. Nothing was selectable other than resizing the window or killing the window. Relaunching explorer would fix it for about half hour.

    Also Setting Teams times for meetings etc, shows the list of times but when you go to click on them the dialog disappears.

    Linux is way more stable than W11

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There aren't any alternatives that are as good or feature-rich. If you're willing to settle for less there's Revolt that's trying to be a 1-to-1 clone but is still in alpha, then there are apps based on Matrix which somehow makes using a chat app 10x harder.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Revolt is just a dead project walking. It solves nothing and recreates most of the same problems discord has by following the same journey.

    Mumble is just the better option if you just need voice. And matrix if you need an all in one solution.

    Hell if you don't want to go self hosted. team speak is a better discord alterative then revolt by a very very large margin L

    Team speak has been doing crazy work the last few years.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mumble is self hosted and works great for voice and text chat. There's also IRC. It's almost as old as the internet, but it runs on anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can use XMPP , instead of IRC, if you want more features.

    Jabber, Mumble and vbulletin was the core software for my gaming group. Discord just made it so the end-user only had to install one app instead of two and a browser bookmark.

    It only costs all of your privacy and, now, $10/mo

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  • just dont use discord

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  • Never had any issues with Discord flatpak

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  • I haven't used native discord client in years. Ferdium 4evar

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I use equibop.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I usually manually install it with the tarball and I have auto updates turned off

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I recommend Revolt for the ones looking for alternatives

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Haha Vermintide was a fun game

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