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For the gamers here using Linux: what about Discord? One of my only social outlets currently is unfortunately through Discord with some friends. There any issues with drivers for headsets and/or Discord having issues?
Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone!!
Discord has a version for Linux. I use it, and it's pretty much the same experience as in winblows.
Sometimes screen sharing my desktop/games crashes Discord or it just doesn't work. Not a big deal and works 70% of the time.
When I have to use discord, I use it in the browser. I don't trust the app not to get up to no good.
The app is just a browser wrapper over the web app.
I'm pretty sure the browser has more sandboxing than a desktop app running as me. The desktop app could do anything. Firefox tries to prevent webpages from doing nefarious stuff.
Discord has an official client for Linux. Also it works well in a Browser. I use it regularly without issues.
I use discord via browser on my Linux.
Discord works absolutely fine in Linux. I use "Vesktop" which is a desktop client for Discord. Performance is identical to using the Discord app in Windows AFAIK.
I use discord flatpak and it works flawlessly. You will need to check your specific headset of course
Discord is a horrible product and we should be steering people away from it and towards a federated alternative like Matrix.
That said, it works fine on Linux. The only issue is that updating it requires editing a text file because the incompetent cunts at the company can't be arsed to develop their product properly.
Matrix eh? Go on...
I have some issues making screenshares with the native app. But the browser version works flawlessly.
I had the same problem, but it turned out to be Wayland support, which is now fixed.
Have had absolutely 0 issues with the official discord linux desktop app for a couple years now. Works just the same as windows
Well, Discord is available on Linux, Archlinux for example has the package and I suppose this is true for many other distros.