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Useless messenger (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its proprietary so that's not a shock

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So is Discord and Viber

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Neither of which run well on Linux. Don't use proprietary software when there are other options

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've been running Discord just fine on Linux. It's just a web wrapper, after all. What issues have you been having with it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Screen share on Wayland is completely broken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Armcord has a plugin fix for that I believe!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Armcord doesn't have global keybinds yet though (no push to talk/mute toggle unless you are tabbed into armcord) which is even worse imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what I've read online that's a problem with Wayland not Discord.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Discord was not made for Wayland and has failed to provide an update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Recently it's stopped opening links in my browser and won't let me upload files to discord.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Last time I tried Viber, it ran fine on Linux, what issues have you had with it?

Discord also works pretty well, minus the white flashing when scrolling through GIFs for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Viber and Discord aren't free (libre) software and should be avoided. I've never ran them because of that reason. However, I've heard lots of complaints of proprietary mainstream applications not being great on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

"Neither of which run well on Linux."

"I've never ran them because of that reason."

Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had a problem with Viber on Linux, it crashed when picking up or starting a call, but that was quickly fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Admittedly haven't tried calling with it, that being said I still need to reinstall it on my main laptop (only recently switched to Linux on that, was using an old laptop with Linux before that), so I'll try some stuff again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

isn't android somewhat linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not really. It technically uses a heavy modified kernel but that's about it