Arch supremacy. My package manager handles everything.

1. Use the flatpak. Or 2. Use the web app (discord.com/app) Or 3. Don't use discord

It has an official flatpak now

Me, running the flatpak: "Y'all are uninstalling and reinstalling .Deb files over and over?"

fuck discord

I've used the flatpak version for years and never have any issues with updates.

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.

Just use discord from the browser, the Linux app sucks anyways

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

~/.config/discord/settings.json

And change "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE" to true

Don't use that shit.

I've heard there's going to be an offical flatpak soon

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.

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.

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.

If you're on Arch, the hack where you change the version number in the build_info.json file to the current version works this time. Sometimes that hack doesn't work but this week it does.

Use deb-get to install third party debs.

https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get

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

I use the flatpak version on my laptop and version from the repositorys on my main pc. So i either have to just update a flatpak or just do a full system update.

In this day and age there's still no repo for that? O_o

I just use the flatpak and it updates just fine

and i thought i was losing features by using the web version...

you can use openasar for discord and it gives you the option to not update.

One more strike for the deb monoculture (read complacency).