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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        Let’s actually not advocate for a different proprietary software, and instead advocate for FOSS solutions like Mumble.

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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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    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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      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 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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        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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    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 used this every time (with sudo):

    #!/bin/sh
    [ "$USER" != root ] && { sudo "$0" && exit; }
    latest_version=$(
      curl -sI 'https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=deb' \
      | grep '^location:' \
      | grep -m 1 -oP '\d[\d.]+\d' \
      | head -n 1
    )
    sed -i.bak 's/\(version.*\)[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+/\1'"$latest_version"'/' \
      '/usr/share/discord/resources/build_info.json'
    

    Let’s see how good the Flatpak version will be.

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      just fyi I moved Discord, GIMP, Obsidian, and OBS over to flatpak and my root partition jumped from 19GB to 23GB. I’m kinda sad about it tbh

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        Most storage space viewers get confused by Flatpak’s heavily deduplicated and compressed files, leading to them reporting way larger space than what’s actually occupied on the hard drive.

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          It’s true lol. I had to install Docker for teaching on my old drive and that instantly maxed out my root partition even when I kept deleting intermediate builds and unused data. Now I have this fun paranoia for all apps :)

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        First of all, stop using legacy SI units for the size of information, they only bring confusion, instead use IEC/binary units like GiB. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

        Second of all, I know that with Flatpak’s ease of installation/runtime comes great size hit. It’s great that some layers are reusable, so it’s not a huge hit. Besides, with big disk size it’s not really a concern now is it?

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        Normally sed just passes along the edited text to STDout (printing in the terminal usually).

        With the -i option it actually changes the input files. If you add an extension immediately after the -i it apparently makes a backup of the original with that extension.

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      Seconding this, deb-get needs more love. We are using it as an official distribution for a project im in and it has been working flawlessly for me.