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My PC freezes up quite often while using Discord, it reacts to nothing except force shutdown :( Otherwise it's been running great since I started using Mint last year.

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I personally use Vesktop, which I think is available as a flatpak. My primary reason for finding an alternative discord client was that I couldn't figure out how to get audio working when streaming games in a voice channel; I spent a long time trying to understand the idiosyncrasies of Linux audio before I realised that it was just a Discord problem, and that it was prevalent enough that it had already been fixed by multiple different people.

I believe that overall stability has been better since switching to Vesktop, but it can still be a bit janky. I think that some of this is related to audio problems (possibly a combination of audio and insufficient RAM).

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried any other discord clients?

[–] Panties@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not any desktop clients. I've been using the web client. Thanks for the idea!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There is a flatpak version if you dont want to get your whole system infested by discord malware :D

Even better there are completely third party open source clients: https://github.com/Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdparties?tab=readme-ov-file#third-party-reimplementations

On the same page there is also a "wrappers" section with web clients that ship with their own customized browser engine to make things more seamless. https://github.com/Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdparties?tab=readme-ov-file#wrappersadapterslaunchers-for-the-official-clients

I dont actually use discord, so i cant really make any recommendations...