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- linux@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26986197
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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I’ve been using Vesktop since forever. They have had it working already for a looooong time.
I just wish there was a FOSS version of Discord. I haven’t looked too deeply into existing alternatives, but I have a feeling they all miss features Discord has and are just not as good.
[matrix] looks promising, but it isn’t quite ready yet
It is way too expensive/wasteful to run as both a client & a server by its architecture.
I think SimpleX is similar
Depending on what you aim to do, Matrix works well enough. Reminds me a lot of Discord back in 2017 or so.
Fuck discord. Proprietary spyware. That shit isn’t getting on my computer anytime ever.
FYI, Element now has a lot of the call features that Discord has
Been using matrix since forever :) But the dissing of shitty corporate centralized applications is necessary because way too many naive users still give their data away for convenience.
in the case of discord, it’s not convenience, it’s the network effect.
That falls under convenience. Getting others to leave corporate bullshit malware and/or spyware takes effort (and I know very well how frustrating it is). Personally I refuse to use discord or FascistApp (I guess with the recent policy changes that name is warranted) etc with all the implications that it has.
Facts, I just left discord and joined groups in matrix, and had some close associates get matrix/element to chat w me. Easy peasy
people on reddit are saying audio-sharing is still broken for every app that utilizes the pipewire audio API directly
Whish Steam would put some effort into this too.
I would love for Valve to make an alternative to Discord, built into Steam.
Matrix really is the answer.
Not if we want sustainable chat. It runs like a blockchain under the hood & duplicates so much data.
Matrix doesn’t have voice channels, probably the most important part of Discord for everyone I know. It’s also built around single rooms, not servers, which just doesn’t feel as good as Discord for interacting with friends.
Same. Atm it works well for basic voice chat but not much more.
Try using OBS with its virtual camera.
I’ve been using that for ages to share my screen, but it doesn’t bring over the audio which can be annoying, but otherwise works great. I am sure there are ways to get the audio into it, but it felt like it would be more trouble than it was worth.
You can stream the audio using PulseAudio volume control. (pavucontrol)
Click in the Recording tab, find the discord input (it should be called WebRTC engine or something similar) and select the audio device you want to use.
To stream audio from your computer, just click the ‘monitor’ version of the device you want to use.
it’s horribly out of sync with the screenshare and low quality
Really? I don’t have that issue. Are you also using OBS? It’s possible your stream is lagging due to hardware restraints.
Meh, I guess there’s just no reason for it to be synced. Hardware is out of the question
Note that the flathub version has not yet been updated. The version with the screenshare is 0.0.79.
Oh ok that explains why it wasn’t working very well
Finally!!!
Can we get actually working global keybinds in Wayland next? Or is that a chromium/electron problem?
wayland global keybinds are not really ready yet, they’re only properly implemented in one desktop, so i don’t blame the discord devs for not adding them.
For those of us not using Wayland, any idea if this still applies? Waiting on my flatpak version to support audio sharing with screen share… And please performance improvements.
it (mostly) fixes audio on x11 too
Still ass, use matrix/element
literally not a single person i know uses matrix, and calls aren’t supported on most clients, so getting them to switch would be literally impossible.
Idk brah I managed to make 3/5 friends switch to it and we almost exclusively use that to chat, and now got 2-3 family members to use it when talking to me too
Element is a messenger and will never have the UX of Discord. There is Revolt, which is actually similar to discord but self-hostable
Has screen sharing a video calls and group calls and working on addons/extensions, not sure what more people would expect from a project of its size
Don’t use discord it’s like reddit
In what sense?
What’s a similar alternative?
element
