discord is stupid - Lemmy.zip

discord want’s to update but the package is already updated, so it gives me a link to the newest package BUT IS FOR UBUNTU!?!?!

use Vesktop
AUR (en) - vesktop-bin

go to

~/.config/discord/settings.json

And change “SKIP_HOST_UPDATE” to true

Wuzzatdo?
It disables the forced update requirement for the Discord client.
Skips the host update
Wow I wonder if there is a wiki where you can find that exact work-around🙃
@iseperiergos How did you install it? I usually select "I'll figure it out" and reinstall it from my package manager. It usually gives me the latest version or a version that I can use to update to the latest version from.
I think flatpak version doesn’t have this issue and updates normally via flatpak commands.
I moved to flatpack Discord because it comes with automatic updates and no update annoyances. It is indeed lower maintenance, but note that because of privacy constraints Flatpack does not permit Discord to view running applications.
I am sure you can use Flatseal or something like that to open it up. I’ve had to do similar for games.
Same for me on NixOs. Krisp noise cancelling doesn’t work on the repo version
flatpak is kinda is nothing or everything thing, if you want to use it you should really commit to it for the best experience
Agree. The downloads are really chonk but you make it back if you have multiple apps that share the same runtimes.
Seems like a plus to me
Download the gerneric linux version. Then un-compress it and copy the contents into your system discord directory. Maybe make a back-up copy first, just in case.
And you have to do it everything a new minor update comes along… Great.
Run it in a VM or at least sandbox the program.
For me doing “pacman -Syyuu” works.

Don’t use discord then. When you use Discord you are making a small sacrifice on your computing freedom.

It sucks but you can’t change and distribute the source code.

That’s what I an going to do
Pacman upgrades only the system packages when you do pacman -Syu. Use your aur helper to update, or manually install the update by downloading and installing the tarballs.
You can get Vesktop from Flathub if you want. It’s a third party client with extensions, themes, updates you can do whenever you want and better Linux support for screensharing.
Legit just complaining about not using flatpack to install this.
Why not use in the browser
I in fedora, I click the drop down and I pick tar. Once I download the tar, I copy the files and done.
I just use the web app on that quite rare occation I need to use discord.