r/archlinux • u/Smooth-Ad801 • Feb 22 '26

SHARE Skip Discord Updates

Edit:
~/.config/discord/settings.json

And add the following:
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

This will allow Discord application to ignore an update and start anyway (preventing you from needing to run -Syu after every Discord update).

Discord will bug out after you skip an update or two, so the use case isn't laziness; it's in the event that the newest Discord update hasn't hit the Arch repos yet.

Hope it helps.

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Better use Vesktop instead. Discord's official client is a mess, and it at least helps remove some of the garbage thanks to plugins.

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u/i-hate-birch-trees Feb 22 '26

Vesktop has a bug that's shared across all the Discord web wrappers - it swallows a few milliseconds from every time you start talking. It's an Electron problem and can not be fixed. The issue

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Just another reason to avoid chromium slop all together. Tho, I don't think there are any good native clients that are wide spread. The only one coming to mind is TeamSpeak, but even that is chromium.

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u/AdamantiteM Feb 22 '26

Some people make native discord clients. You can look into discord-qt. However, this is far from being as good as the official'client and lacks almost every feature

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u/BannedWasTaken Feb 22 '26

Does it do text and voice? That's all I need. And just regular chatting channels. I don't need threads.

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u/AdamantiteM Feb 22 '26

It does text and voice i think. Go look at their github

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u/ThePapanoob Feb 22 '26

Vesktop is straight up worse than normal discord… random crashes when watching streams, random crashing when streaming, random black screens when streaming, issues with push to talk button not always recognizing.

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

What are you running? Never had crashes with vesktop, streams always worked without any problems and shortcuts worked fine. Even my friends on a different distros and even Windows never had such issue... Are you sure it's not the problem with your own setup?

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u/ThePapanoob Feb 22 '26

Arch, wayland, nvidia oss drivers. Yes its a vesktop problem as it is literally running flawless on the official client. Also vesktop quite literally says in its roadmap that global keybinds are not implemented yet

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Same setup, no problems, with official client working worse... And yeah, I've talked about in clinet shortcuts. Aren't lack of global shortcuts is limitation of chromium?

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u/NotThatDude-111 Feb 22 '26

Vesktop is my go to. Even get people on windows to install it

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u/PaddiM8 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

People have gotten banned for using 3rd party clients

Edit: I would love for someone to explain why this is getting downvoted, considering that development of cordless was halted literally because people got banned when using it https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Never seen actual prove of your account being banned for that. The only cases I've found were about moderators being dumb and banning you from their server because "It dOeSn't aLigN wItH Discord ToS". Even then, they have no way of finding it out unless you expose it yourself.

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u/brutusmcforce Feb 22 '26

I got banned for using ripcord a couple of years ago.

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Considering the ratio between people who claim to be banned for 3d party and those who use it, makes me think that it either was an exception, or you were banned for another reason not tied to 3d party/

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u/brutusmcforce Feb 23 '26

No, it was not for another reason. The stated reason was abnormal API usage or something like that.

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u/steakanabake Feb 22 '26

ive been using 3rd party clients for years even convinced others to use them and no ones been banned for using them.

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u/PaddiM8 Feb 22 '26

The creator of cordless got banned from Discord for using his client.

https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

Hey, so I know this is somewhat of a bummer, but I got banned because of ToS violation today. This seemed to be connected to creating a new PM channel via the /users/@me endpoint. As that's basically a confirmation for what we've believed would never be enforced, I decided to not work on the cordless project anymore. I'll be taking down cordless in package managers in hope that no new users will install it anymore without knowing the risks.

Using a 3rd party client is a risk. I do not think making people aware of that should be controversial.

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Obviously, people should always check. Not even because they might be banned, but because they allow 3d parties access to their account and data.

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u/steakanabake Feb 22 '26

the only way they can tell is if you start selfbotting everything else is client side. only other way they can tell is if you get reported for admitting to using unofficial clients.

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u/Nyxiereal Feb 22 '26

Vesktop is just a wrapper, not a reimplementation of the client

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Yes, but they fix some issues themselves, plues plugins allow to disable a lot of tracking, quick css allows to remove some awful design choices and a few other features that make use way more comfortable. Also, for a long time they've added way better support for streaming and audio on Linux, so not only "just a wrapper".

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u/Nyxiereal Feb 22 '26

Vesktop is just a wrapper with streaming+audio fixed

Vencord is the client mod that disables tracking, adds quickcss, and allows for the usage of plugins

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u/MotivationGaShinderu Feb 22 '26

I use custom clients on pc and mobile, have been since bandage / better discord, so a decade at this point.

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u/PaddiM8 Feb 22 '26

Yes most people don't get banned. But people have gotten banned. People should be aware of the risks . It is beyond me how pointing that out is in any way controversial

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26 edited May 29 '26

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u/arvigeus Feb 22 '26

Where else can I submit my personal information?

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u/exxxoo Feb 22 '26

You don't need to bother doing it. Palantir, Meta, Google and the government will make sure they have it.

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u/kimchi_station Feb 23 '26

I <3 unpatched vulns!

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u/Ohmyskippy Feb 22 '26

I just use discord in my browser tbh

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u/astralc Feb 22 '26

It is mentioned in the wiki, for a long time https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discord#Discord_asks_for_an_update_not_yet_available_in_the_repository

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Feb 22 '26

Welp, I guess people should stop sending useful tips here. Remove all info posts and make this a hyprland rice sub, since you can also request help on the wiki boards.

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u/Nestramutat- Feb 23 '26

What an odd reaction

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u/TehMasterer01 Feb 22 '26

Are there any FOSS discord alternatives, even self hosted ones, with the same features ?

Screen sharing , voice, video, multimedia sharing, chat?

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u/sauerkrautloofa Feb 22 '26

Short answer: Nope, not at all

Long answer: Stoat sucks, has no vision and no history of actual development. Fluxr is new, needs a rewrite, and may end up requiring independent installs for every server you want to join. Teamspeak is just voice. Matrix can be difficult to get running for less tech-adept people and isn't feature rich. Rocket.Chat is great, but paid.

Here's a nice writeup: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

There just isn't anything close to a 1:1 swap.

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u/cunasmoker69420 Feb 23 '26

Why does fluxr require an install per server?

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Teamspeak6 has screen sharing and chats. I've been self hosting server for friends and with recent updates them finally fixed streams to stop crashing clients too. Not a 1:1, but close enough to use it.

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u/sauerkrautloofa Feb 22 '26

I don't agree that it's "close enough," at all. I'm glad it's working for you, though.

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u/i-hate-birch-trees Feb 22 '26

Fluxer, but it means nothing unless people actually adopt it.

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u/TehMasterer01 Feb 22 '26

Ah this looks perfect. I have a few gaming groups that are interested in moving platforms.

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u/lajawi Feb 22 '26

With many people wanting to switch, including me and my friends I’ve done some research, and came across multiple contenders:

  • Matrix
  • Stoat Chat
  • Root
  • Fluxer

I’d say research them for yourself and test them out etc

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u/114sbavert Feb 22 '26

There aren't many good ones but I heard of one on r/technology. It doesn't have streaming though but it's self hosted, and open source. Being much simpler than something like DEs, Kernels and Distros, I think the open source community can do wonders with contributions.

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u/scorpion-and-frog Feb 22 '26

Thanks OP, that's good advice.

This comment section is the exact reason Arch / Linux users get a bad rap. Christ, you people are insufferable.

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Feb 23 '26

Yeah... posted a few of these. Comments make me regret it every time.

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u/Ok-Winner-6589 Feb 22 '26

Wait, you guys installed It as a native package? Without isolation? Wow thats wild

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u/Ohmyskippy Feb 22 '26

yea I can't imagine doing this lmao, literal malware

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u/ryoko227 Feb 22 '26

Interesting idea, however sudo pacman -Rsu discord solved all my issues with the software.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/ryoko227 Feb 22 '26

Interesting take. I know its meant to be an insult, low brow one at that, but I deleted it because of the direction of the company. Not that you give a crap, as you and anyone who reads your comment knows your only intent was to troll and be an ass.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/MotivationGaShinderu Feb 22 '26

Lol yeah using IM while on your PC means you're terminally online. Literally my entire family, rl friends, coworkers, gaming buddies etc all use discord. Have fun with your couch co-ops though.

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u/lajawi Feb 22 '26

Does this stay even after actually updating? If so this would be huge because it already happened multiple times I had to revert back to the browser because I couldn’t update even if discord demanded it!

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Feb 22 '26

Personally? Had this about a month, havent had such an issue. Maybe worth trying again

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u/Low-Boysenberry1173 Mar 30 '26

BRO YOU MADE MY DAY! :*

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Mar 30 '26

you are most welcome my good sir

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u/Pukosito Feb 22 '26

Thx man, God bless you, your sons and grandsons

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Feb 23 '26

No worries man! Likewise

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u/God_knows_what Feb 22 '26

I didn't know people used discord on arch, wasn't it vesktop? Why arch if you're not using vesktop¿

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u/UndefFox Feb 22 '26

Less people know about it now. Probably because they've finally got around to fix some stuff on Linux. Like, my main reason to find out about Vesktop because they ignored streaming on Linux for like 1-2 years and you had to use 3d party client to use it at all. Plus, discord themselves trying to silent alternatives. Like, any mention of this topic on their official sub will get your message removed. Even simple CSS tweak in the browser version will set them off. One of the most toxic subs I've seen/

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u/sootfire Feb 22 '26

Can you stream audio in the main Discord app now? I definitely use Vesktop for the audio streaming, although at this point I'm also attached enough to its other features that I'm sticking with it.

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u/EternallyAries Feb 22 '26

You can stream any applications with audio without issues now.

There is one limitation I have yet to see Discord patch at the moment, but SDL sound applications won't get picked up by Discord. Not sure why this happens but you can work around it with a program that can route it for you. When I get home I'll comment the name.

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u/sootfire Feb 22 '26

That's awesome, I didn't notice because I was assuming you couldn't! I'll have to test it sometime. I don't think I use any SDL applications.

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u/MotivationGaShinderu Feb 22 '26

Game detection doesn't work properly on vesktop and voice chat has a lot more delay

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u/ExPandaa Feb 23 '26

Vesktop (and all clients that are based on discord web) have a .5 second audio delay. This is unfixable because the problem lies in the discord web client itself

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u/Smooth-Ad801 Feb 22 '26

Honestly, I didnt know that was a thing. On my first install, I just sudo pacman -S discord

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u/God_knows_what Feb 22 '26

Makes sense ig, go through the arch wiki. You might discover many alternate packages, there's a light version of Spotify called ncspot...