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Been waiting for this for a long time.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
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I can't imagine the venn diagram of people who still use discord and people who game on linux has that much of an overlap does it? Like cmon it's got to be the worst possible of all the options. You'd be more secure sending a plaintext email to someone.
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I'm not sure why I'd be installing actual Discord on Linux; I'm sure there should be an open-source fork somewhere that's less resource-hungry and less intrusive to the system... Just saying.
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Oh my god. Push to talk.
:o
Holy fuck.
Linux didn't have the most basic voice chat function up to now???? :O
They STILL don't???
What the actual
Checks original release date for ventrilo
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