Computer science students can’t be taught to install anything more obscure than the most popular app, I guess.

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      21 days ago

      Use something like Vesktop or Goofcord. They’re wrappers for the web version with extra features and telemetry blocked/removed. As private as you’rd going to get with Discord.

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      i am not a big discord-head but its my assumption that there’s still pretty close parity between the web browser version and the linux package, so i personally don’t have a reason to install it.

      actually answer your q, no sorry i have zero well-formed reasons why you shouldn’t install it, i just feel less icky loading it from browser instead of having it installed on my system. same for skype

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      In my experience, the ones bundled in distros work okay, but tend to eventually fall behind and stop working.

      If you download the .deb from their website, it works well but sometimes, on startup, makes you download and install new one. I assume the .tar.gz version from their website works the same, but with replacing the folder manually.