Can’t I go one week without having to uninstall and reinstall the damn deb file?

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      Yeah, I’m really glad I ignored everyone’s advice and went straight to Arch.

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        Nowadays Arch is pretty straight forward. You have gui installers like any other distro. I never broke my Arch install in 3+ years using it.

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          Thats what it seems. But as recent as my account here people have warned me about arch being unstable and such. It leaves me scratching my head tbh

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            You can get an arch based distro with btrfs snapshots set up by default. An example is garuda. Btrfs lets you automatically take snapshots of your file system at set intervals. If you fuck something up and break something, you can restore yesterday’s snapshot or last week’s or whatever. Garuda’s default install even let’s you choose to boot into a snapshot from GRUB.

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              I chose Garuda for this reason and I love it. the automatic snapshots have saved me several times, plus I like all the built-in tools for configuring a ton of things that I’d have no idea how to configure otherwise. The preinstalled software is also super useful. The only thing I didn’t like about it is the gaudy default theme but that’s easy to change.

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                Endeavor is just Arch with AUR repos enabled by default, so it’s either just as easy or easier.

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      I really hope Revolt decentralizes someday (plus gets remotely relevant by usercount, no offense)

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        Not gonna happen, the developer made it quite clear from the get-go. Also, their community are quite hostile against it and pretty much most FOSS stuff for some reason.

        I can see a fork taking what is useful about it (UI/UX) and adopting solid backends (federation, proper VoIP with screen sharing, etc.)

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          Wouldn’t it be easier to get something like Rocket.Chat + Jitsi and make them work well together?

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        I wish that would happen, or maybe if someone forked their client and hooked it up to connect to matrix home servers. The client looks great.

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    the flatpak is the official distribution of the app now, so you might just want to move to that instead

    EDIT: as for how well it works for those who doubt flatpak and discord in general, it works well! I’ve streamed video and received video streams on x11 and Wayland with no problems. Not sure if audio streaming worked in either case though.

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      and if thats the only way you can talk to your friends, you can just use the web client and have at least a choice to not run chromium and have an adblocker

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      Unfortunately Mumble and TeamSpeak aren’t as feature complete and user friendly

      But they’re the only other alternatives I’ve checked out

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    I’ve just told mine to not check for updates.

    ~/.config/discord/settings.json

    And change “SKIP_HOST_UPDATE” to true

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    I moved my non-techie friend to Kubuntu and this was one of the speedbumps we ran into. I had to set .deb files to open with something other than the KDE get new software app. I think we’re using qapt-something. I wish discord didn’t treat us Linux users like 2nd class citizens. They coded support for capturing OS sound for Windows, but not Linux or Mac for that matter.

    As an aside, I think this situation is a microcosm for different OS’s and it’s users:

    Windows users: We’re the biggest group so sound works fine for us.

    Linux users: Discord doesn’t support our needs so we implemented it ourselves with discord-screenaudio.

    Mac users: Discord doesn’t support our needs and there’s no solution to purchase so I guess we’re just fucked.

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      To be fair, Apple made audio sharing an absolute nightmare. I have never gotten my remote control software audio to work on Mac and have tried multiple non-Crapple solutions.

      Discord won’t even make it as painless as possible though, and getting it set up requires downloading a third party thing now (from outside the app, before I could at least click a button inside the app).

      I totally gave up a few months ago on Discord on Mac because I was sick of booting into safe mode. I’m not sure who is to blame for this but I imagine it’s Apple.

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    You can bump the version number in it’s build_info.json file and it’ll work just fine. It’s weird like that. That file is in /opt/discord/resources/ for me.

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        I haven’t tried flatpacks yet. How do they compare to, say, snaps in terms of storage/redundancy?

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          no, flatpak has deduplication, so it can take less, and less space, from more flatpak you install(the first install is heavy, but it’s downloading the runtime that others flatpak also share with)

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          If you only have 2 or 3 flatpaks installed it’s going to eat space like crazy. Deduplication only matters when many are used and if they have the same base. I’ve already suffered from too much space occupied because of flatpaks.

          But the tradeoff is useful for bad software like this, at least it works, if you have space enough for it.

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            It looks like you’re right. Uninstalling the deb and then installing the flatpak consumed an additional 2GB on my root, but I have a handful of other electron-based apps that are mildly obnoxious snaps, and migrating them might help amortize that cost

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    I just tried opening discord a minute ago and got that lmao. Since I am on fedora I can’t use the deb file. Often pointing around on my system I found where all the discord files are and I made a script that downloads the discord .tar.gz file and moves all the files to the right places. Every time I get the prompt I run the script and it updates discord for me (:

    #! /usr/bin/sh
    
    wget -O discord.tar.gz "https://discord.com/api/download/stable?platform=linux&format=tar.gz"
    tar -xvf discord.tar.gz
    rm -rf discord.tar.gz
    sudo rm -rf /lib64/discord
    sudo mv Discord /lib64/discord
    
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    If you’re on Arch, the hack where you change the build_info.json file to the current version works this time. Sometimes that hack doesn’t work but this week it does.

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      If you’re on Arch, why don’t you just use the discord package from extra repositories and have discord simply update with pacman?

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        The discord pacman package sometimes takes up to 2 days to update to the newest version. I’m sure if I really wanted to get into it I could use wireshark to find out which ip addresses to block with the host file to make it stop refusing to let me use it without being on the latest version but that’s a lot of effort for something that only might work.

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          Wouldn’t blocking it break some other functionality? I wonder if you could have a more granular approach where given a payload and endpoint, return a predefined result.
          That way you could isolate the “am I on the latest version” requeat specifically.

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            Yeah I can’t think of a way to do that but in theory if someone could figure it out, that would be a better approach.