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Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 166 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (30 children)

I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

(In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service <3)

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 66 points 2 days ago

I saw something from a discord dev (can't find it, so grain of salt) about how there was interest recently to do it, but they'd have to work on other stuff that affected everyone first, and they'd probably get it done by q4 2024, guess they were right.

I think before then the whole linux graphics and audio space hadn't really stabilized enough for them to be interested.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I like how Vesktop updates in the background. Discord proper has to close, download the .deb, install, and relaunch.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was broken so long I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken.

Tech companies are fully capable of being lazy for free. Fixing this takes dev time from other work that brings Discord money so doing this costs them, especially considering that Linux userbase must be rather tiny. 99% of software companies don't give a shit about making quality product and will always try their hardest to do as little work as possible while making as much money as possible. If fixing a bug will cost them more than potential profits from making it work then they won't fix it.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago (7 children)

convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.

Heh. There's a ticket with Splunk. It's a simple request: do the 30 sec of work to let us install your software rpm from a proper yum repo.

They can't figure out how.

They won't ask.

It's 12 years old now.

The ticket for them to do a trivial exercise with tools twice as old, is now a tween. It can ride the bus on its own. I think it can get a Facebook account. Maybe.

We should get one for it.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 16 hours ago

The bigger Discord becomes, the more irrelevant it is to me.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But still doesn't accept my legitimate phone number, which is mandatory now.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only in servers that enabled that verification. Its a server setting

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sent by me:

Dear Discord Privacy Team!

I'm writing to you to inform you that your platform (mobile, desktop, browser) can enforce the user to verify their account with a phone number, after the user has changed their E-Mail adress. This is a serios privacy problem! I'd like you to verify that you don't intend on providing other (more privacy friendly) means of account verification apart from providing the phone number. I suddenly cannot use my Discord account due to this and I object to providing a phone number.

Kind regards, ~sntx

Their answer:

Discord Privacy Team (Discord Support)

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Unfortunately, we aren't able to assist you here. This channel is reserved for privacy questions and requests.

It looks like this is a question for our Customer Support team. We recommend that you resubmit your request and choose the appropriate reporting option. You can do so here: [...].

In the meantime you can check out our Help Center for more info on everything Discord.

We appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely, Discord Privacy Team

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But its a server setting to need phone verification. Im on a ton of servers and never provided them my phone number. One server changed access rights manually for my username because i refused to give discord my phone number when they enabled the verification requirement haha.
Also, their response is terrible haha

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[–] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Vencord has had it forever. Just a community discord flathub.

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[–] PromptX@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 days ago

That's about time.. I won't be uninstalling vesktop tho

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 86 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And yes, vesktop did it first, but discord's version is quite a bit more polished

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Vesktop still allows you to choose a single audio output, Discord's implementation seems to share system audio of all running apps, and doesn't let you choose the specific application.

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[–] meekah@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Finally I can go back to having people at 200% 😍

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

This is past due, I use Vencord.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oh my fuck, finally. Good lord Discord, only took you eons to get that working with Wayland after you broke it.

I get that there's other things like Discord out there, but nothing works like Discord.

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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 days ago

About fucking time

[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just installed Canary on my system to test this, and while it's a little janky and the hardware acceleration seems to stop other apps using the GPU at the same time this is still good enough I think I can finally move to Linux as my main OS. I assume this will get polished further in the future. Great stuff though.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There is another, semi official linux client called vesktop. Comes with a range of plugin options, all improving or enabling functions the default client doesnt offer or hides behind a paywall. It also has had screen share on Linux for the longest time,if you do the switch give it a go. Certainly better than the default app

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Except push to talk doesn't work in Vesktop/Vencord sadly.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

THIS prevented you from switching?

Afaik screenshare always worked when using Discord in a browser

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[–] EuCaue@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Finally! =D

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

now fix push to talk which is arguable far more important

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[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

thank FUCK

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like their UX, the button doesn't say "Share screen" but "Make Selection". On Element my dad every time has such a hard time to share the screen because even though he did it already a hundred times, he presses the share screen button and then waits, without choosing which window or screen to share.

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Finally, Tho i dont use the desktop app anymore. (Hint electron)

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