Discord delivers vastly improved Linux support with "Year of Linux Desktop" update.

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    "title": "Discord delivers vastly improved Linux support with \"Year of Linux Desktop\" update.",
    "excerpt": "Discord delivers vastly improved Linux support with \"Year of Linux Desktop\" update.\n\nDiscord's Linux Support has been greatly improved.\n\nDiscord has been available for Linux for years, but it hasn't delivered a great experience. Yes, the Windows version is a memory hog, but the Linux version lacked broad distribution support, hardware video encoding, global hotkey support, and was honestly pretty flaky.\n\nWith Discord's \"Year of Linux Desktop\" update, Discord now officially supports Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Furthermore, the app now supports video encoding for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia graphics cards. It also now uses Gamescope Vulkan for screenshots, massively reducing hardware overhead. Global hotkey support greatly improves \"Push-To-Talk\" support, and the Discord app will now automatically update on Linux. Support for the Wayland idle protocol has also been added.\n\nHonestly, this \"Year of the Linux Desktop\" update was needed. With Linux growing in popularity amongst gamers, stronger software support was needed. Now, Steam Deck users can use Discord with less hardware overhead, improving their handhelds' battery life. Desktop users can also benefit from improved hardware support and decreased overhead.\n\nThe irony of this update is that the Windows version of Discord also needs work. Discord is well known for consuming a lot of memory, which is a big problem for gamers with...",
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    "article_sentence": "With Discord's \"Year of Linux Desktop\" update, Discord now officially supports Debian, Fedora, and Arch."
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