Problem with Discord on the Deck? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Tugboater203@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

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Good morning, I'm having trouble with getting Discord to open on my deck. There aren't any updates available, but when I go to open it, it just spins and doesn't load. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, but still nothing. What next?

This is on both desktop mode and in gaming mode.

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[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 5 days ago

Never been an avid user of the Discord app, preferring using on browsers. But from what I remember of a friend commenting on his misadventures with that, compatibility with Linux can be very spotty. Some times the integration was broken because of the display (XServer, Wayland, etc.), or because of the desktop environment (Gnome, Cinnamon, etc.), or because of where Discord came from (e.g. Flathub, snap, the official DEB installer), or the position of the planets (joke... probably).

You may want to play around with combinations given that.

[-] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks, I can safely say that I know very, very little about Linux. So this whole thing is an adventure

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 days ago

This "integration broken" thing though, usually I don't see. If a program is made for a given system, e.g, the DEB installer being for Debian and/or Ubuntu (and/or a few more but not worth getting into right now), one would expect it to work in these systems.

Also if you feel adventurous, try installing a system you can easily tinker with, e.g. Mint or Endeavour, in a virtual machine like Virtualbox. As you play around, don't sweat if you break something, for that's the purpose. No making an omelette without learning to crack the eggs first.