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.
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.
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.
Agreed. I keep trying to use it because that’s where Opensim’s Metaverse Alliance landed when Google Groups shut down, but it’s way too noisy. I wish they’d just settled on a proper forum site like Delphi.
I hope Discord won’t become the go to app for Linux gamers, when Linux becomes the go to OS for gaming ( one can dream right ! )
I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.
Based on what I understand, the feature people use Discord for is “group voice chat”, but other people on this thread r saying, future Element X can do that, and Mumble can also do that… How easy they are compared to Discord ? Idk, but I know that It literally sucks all your data, just so it can tell you : person X is playing game Y…
I just remembered Revolt aims to be an exact copy of Discord, it’s Foss and chats are E2EE I guess
If you must use discord for some reason use the web version in librewolf
Fuck discord.
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.
Guilded is a much better alternative. Gives you all the Nitro stuff for free. But ultimately is a for-profit company owned by
MSRoblox so it’s destined for the same shitty fate in the future. Their monetization model is more like Patreon where people pay to support their favorite communities.Matrix is another one but its incredibly slow and incredibly lacking in features and not nearly as private as it’s made out to be.
Best case scenario you can self-host rocket.chat
You can use Mumble instead of teamspeak.
Mumble (is comoletely free software and has a better quality even than teamspeak)
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.
