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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!?!?!

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (4 children)

go to

~/.config/discord/settings.json

And change "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE" to true

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Wow I wonder if there is a wiki where you can find that exact work-around🙃

[–] TootSweet 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Skips the host update

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

It disables the forced update requirement for the Discord client.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] SpookyCoffee 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think flatpak version doesn’t have this issue and updates normally via flatpak commands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

flatpak is kinda a everything or nothing thing, if you want to use it you should probably really commit to it for the best experience, otherwise some of it's upsides turn into downsides.
I'm not a huge fan of it, but i like it as an ecosystem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agree. The downloads are really chonk but you make it back if you have multiple apps that share the same runtimes.

It’s possible to use flatpack for just one or two apps, but you pay a disk space and download size tax.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Same for me on NixOs. Krisp noise cancelling doesn't work on the repo version

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Seems like a plus to me

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that shit is super annoying, it's been happening for years. I'm surprised they haven't turned it into a self contained updater or something by now. It's part of the reason I don't use it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I one up this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's what I an going to do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

For me doing "pacman -Syyuu" works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] amnesiac 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not use in the browser

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I in fedora, I click the drop down and I pick tar. Once I download the tar, I copy the files and done.

[–] siderealyear -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

And you have to do it everything a new minor update comes along... Great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Run it in a VM or at least sandbox the program.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

Legit just complaining about not using flatpack to install this.