A Letter to Discord for not Supporting the Linux Desktop

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  • Electron

    :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

    • Unfortunately XDG Portal support still isn't properly working in Electron and still fails in a lot of cases.

  • Mumble

    Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

    • If you can, I'd recommend checking out Mumble. It's similar to teamspeak, but it's FOSS and has some other cool features, such as positional audio (so that the direction you hear people from matches where they are in-game).

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  • electron

    Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies (by discord)

    • The article from your quick google share says that you should use getUserMedia to capture the screen using Electron. Not only does Discord's client not use this, they even go as far as to disable it from their electron fork https://github.com/discord/electron/commit/e763956140aa6bf78f02202ab4df1e942ce672ae

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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