Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop

The Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here! Sort of. Well, not really but it's getting there and Discord has seen some nice improvements lately.

Don't come for me in the comments - I said what I said. The year is not here yet, I'll celebrate once we hit perhaps 10% of the desktop market share. At least according to Steam we're doing quite okay.

Anyway, what's up with Discord? Well, over the last few months they've been slowly upgrading the Linux version of their app to make it not suck so much. Back in December 2025 they improved Go Live video support to capture games directly along with the addition of hardware accelerated video encoding, in March 2026 they improved video calls for background replacement and in May 2026 they finally added an auto-updater instead of forcing people to re-download it each time.

There's a lot of smaller tweaks here and there like global hotkey support, improved Wayland support and more but those above are the main highlights.

To celebrate they did a silly little video, that's basically making a joke of themselves and how it took so long for the Linux app to get an updater:

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