I first dabbled with Linux around 2015 by dual booting. Ran into too many issues, then I royally fucked shit up by accidentally deleting the bootloader or something, so I was pretty hesitant to try again. I finally got a hold of a surplus laptop from work so I could install Mint on it without any worry that I’d lose important data.
I’ve been using that as my primary PC for a few months now. I’ve run into some minor challenges, but nothing critical that I couldn’t figure out with a search engine.
I had another old laptop still running Windows 7 that has been having weird issues, but I’d been too lazy to backup the files so I could wipe it. I finally pulled the trigger today, fully wiped it, and installed Mint on it.
I’m not ready to preach Linux to my “normie” friends yet, but do mention it to them here and there in hopes I’ll be able to bring them over in the future.
Personally, I’m a bigger fan of Revolt… or at least the idea of it. The GUI is nearly identical to discord, the basics are all there, all they need is time to get it fleshed out and working. Also it’s open source, so that’s a plus.
Edit: I should clarify, it does work. But the team is small and the current vision is large. To get Revolt to be equal with discord would probably take a couple years. That being said, if you want a strictly text and voice chat platform with built in css editing, Revolt is a good option.
That’s just natural. Discord has a huge weight of numbers. People stay where they already are, unless there is significant motivation to move.
Matrix would have to be MUCH better than Discord in terms of features to attract people to move their whole communities and friend groups, not just simply on-par. And that’s pretty tough.
So yes - we’re basically waiting for Discord to continue its slow march into enshittification.
If you mean screensharing, then you can totally do that with game footage in element call tho. Someone i know had the same concern but it worked fine for them. This is the call software used in the element matrix client so you can try it out and tell me if it works https://call.element.io/
The worse discord becomes, the easier it will be to convince people to switch to matrix :)
We’ve been saying that about Windows and Linux for forever.
And it is slowly happening :)
It’s happening. Slowly.
I first dabbled with Linux around 2015 by dual booting. Ran into too many issues, then I royally fucked shit up by accidentally deleting the bootloader or something, so I was pretty hesitant to try again. I finally got a hold of a surplus laptop from work so I could install Mint on it without any worry that I’d lose important data.
I’ve been using that as my primary PC for a few months now. I’ve run into some minor challenges, but nothing critical that I couldn’t figure out with a search engine.
I had another old laptop still running Windows 7 that has been having weird issues, but I’d been too lazy to backup the files so I could wipe it. I finally pulled the trigger today, fully wiped it, and installed Mint on it.
I’m not ready to preach Linux to my “normie” friends yet, but do mention it to them here and there in hopes I’ll be able to bring them over in the future.
Personally, I’m a bigger fan of Revolt… or at least the idea of it. The GUI is nearly identical to discord, the basics are all there, all they need is time to get it fleshed out and working. Also it’s open source, so that’s a plus. Edit: I should clarify, it does work. But the team is small and the current vision is large. To get Revolt to be equal with discord would probably take a couple years. That being said, if you want a strictly text and voice chat platform with built in css editing, Revolt is a good option.
Isn’t it a shame that it takes discord to get worse and not matrix to get better?
That’s just natural. Discord has a huge weight of numbers. People stay where they already are, unless there is significant motivation to move.
Matrix would have to be MUCH better than Discord in terms of features to attract people to move their whole communities and friend groups, not just simply on-par. And that’s pretty tough.
So yes - we’re basically waiting for Discord to continue its slow march into enshittification.
Yeah all of my friends are on discord, many of them its my only way to communicate with them even though we met irl. I kinda have to use it
Matrix is getting better constantly tho. I havent had any issues introducing non techie people to it.
it is getting better at least
Any service whose main strength is “OSS, privacy, freedom, security” will usually never hit mainstream success. I say this as a FOSS enthusiast.
You need funding to get better easier, which is something matrix doesnt have alot of
Matrix can’t do game streaming, which is arguably a huge part of Discord.
If you mean screensharing, then you can totally do that with game footage in element call tho. Someone i know had the same concern but it worked fine for them. This is the call software used in the element matrix client so you can try it out and tell me if it works https://call.element.io/
You mean switch to Jabber, right?