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PayPalThe 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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Quoting: Linux_RocksNot really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.
Last edited by Phlebiac on 14 May 2026 at 7:35 am UTC
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.Already exceeding 10% there, if you only care about English.
Linux_Rocks 4 hours ago
Quoting: PhlebiacMy bad, I just remember them being all like "*BSD this" and "open source that" with Mac OS X and software. I also remember there being a thing with the Yellow Dog Linux people at the Apple Store near me too. I was really surprised about that, even back then.Quoting: Linux_RocksNot really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.
PlayingOnLinuxphone 3 hours ago
Quoting: LinuxwarperProblem I see with the statement "Year of Linux" is that people dont consider the negatives of increased userbase. Users can also be a detriment. Ideally you would have just enough percentage to ensure platform is supported and doesn't get neglected, whether that be 5% or 40% is irrelevant.No, ideally it would be everyone, because how do you want to protect your data if the data leak is not on your PC, but on your friends PCs?
All the people care for freedom etc will not disappear. Do you really think Debian or Arch will change with a bigger Linux user-base? As long these two distros are clean, I do not fear the future of Linux.
TheLinuxPleb 2 hours ago
I personally wouldn't want to use the app, but would like to use Discord in a web browser cause it's in a nice browser tab instead of a separate app.
Or maybe it's some other issue. Would need to test it out.
Last edited by TheLinuxPleb on 14 May 2026 at 11:19 am UTC
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