Updating Discord on Arch Linux be like:

This time I really forgot setup OBS and I'm too lazy to do it again... Next video will be 1080p (hopefully).

[decadanceautumn]

2024. the method still works. unlike the Discord developers.

[Finkelfunk]

I quite literally wrote a shell script that does this.
What moonbrain thought that it was a good idea to make an app COMPLETELY unusable and updates mandatory every time they ship a minor change to some fucking button font size?

[_GRBL]

The thing that kills me is even if you `sudo pacman -S discord` to update it normally discord STILL updates itself like we didn't just update it. Why it can't just do that anyway is beyond me

[nicolasbertozzo]

Don't tell me this actually works LMAO

[sypedhw]

Linux and Discord are two things that don't go well with each other, while one gives you freedom and is malware free, the other is basically spyware, which monitors other processes and pulls data out of your pc.

[miku]

I still don't understand what updating the package via the repo even does if discord's wonderful client still pulls in some updates after startup.
I mean, take a page out of Steam's book for god's sake.
what is there to update anyway?
the app's just a

god I hate being forced to use this service.

[megapikachu]

Least complicated "I use arch btw" moment

[joaopedro-wvkp]

I use a debian distro and I do update like this video lol. Discord has some weird update mechanism that goes against my OS

[patrickwalter]

As soon as I saw this video I wrote a shell script that automates this. Thank you daru - I had no idea!

[itsoctotv]

i mean "sudo pacman -Syu" does also work but... yea thats cooler

[progreon]

Yep, still working, did it just now for version 0.0.20 :D

[anonimenkolbas]

And then there's my stupid ass downloading the tar.gz option, untarring it into /opt/discord, and redoing the permissions on the desktop launcher icon.

Thank you, SO much, for showing me this.

[CompuBt]

Now it's auto download like in Windows, once you open the app on Arch Discord update itself.

[nerdygiz]

In the arch wiki for discord it shows what to do when this happens it just tells u to set "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE" to true

[scorpiofern]

everytime that happens, just update your system and discord will be updated through pacman

[gamingandanime]

It is same even in Linux Mint ( KDE ) Don't even remember how I installed it in the first place ( maybe through software manager or .deb file from website )

[EntityPlantt]

I do this on Fedora Silverblue too. I hate the Flatpak version (no cross-app communication) so I wrote a shell script that does it for me. Then I changed the .desktop file of Discord to have an Update option in context menu.

[Pixel_Magic]

I didn't expected, that I will learn something with memes. Thank you :)
p.s. why discord can't change version number, is he stupid?

[XDM_Studios]

Excuse me I never knew you could do that lol. How long since moved on to Fedora but that is a good tibit to know

[nanulanu]

IK this is a joke but this acutally helped me a lot tysm :D