Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux

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)

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

Fuck Discord! 🙂

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.

When do they stop selling user data? Next patch?

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.

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

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

Took them long enough

About fucking time

This is past due, I use Vencord.

now fix push to talk which is arguable far more important

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.

thank FUCK

Does that works for Wayland or X? or both?
Quite nice feature indeed.

Oh my god, it's happening!

What about audio sharing?

Too late for those Nimrods.
Just use vencord or something that worked for ages.

I've been screen sharing from discord on hyprland for months, it wasn't already working?

Did they also finally fix the AFK detection on Wayland?

Oh sweet jesus, it's finally happening! Huzzah! Rejoice!

Finally. I had it working after a bunch of workarounds recently, but it was not really stable.

Always remember, this is what we all deserve for using closed source apps.

Oh awesome, I’ve been using the webcord version as the others were all shit for screen sharing. Having said that even webcord also has weird sound issue sim hoping are fixed with this.

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

Finally! =D

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

Yay I can finally uninstall Vesktop

i don't use it because my laptop is a toshiba from 2006 i think and it runs xubuntu which is pretty cool!! but discord runs a little bit slow so sadly no screensharing and anyway for most of my friends i use email to talk to them

Finally

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch

I've been using the canary branch exclusively for about a year because of audio issues on the main one, I would genuinely be ecstatic if they finally ported over the fix because for some reason the canary branch refuses to auto upgrade and I have to do it manually every time.

Great! Now I just need global shortcuts.

Goofcord gang rise up

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

Woooo yeah baby I love Discord

Sorry but I don't really care about discord news on Linux...

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