• 30p87@feddit.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    To be fair, Signal, Threema and Discord use Electron, and therefore are just crappy bullshit on Wayland.
    Using a dedicated FF instance uses less RAM, CPU and disk space, and gives you more control over the application/website.

    Discord has a web version, even if it doesn’t support some features, so I use it in FF. WhatsApp has a web version, so I use it in FF.
    Signal does not. So it’s barely usable on my Nvidia desktop.
    We do not need ““native”” Applications, made with a mix of a web version and a D tier browser engine, if we could just use the already installed, better and perfectly working browser.

    • Discords Electron was outdated and vulnerable for years, FF would be patched in days or hours in case of a zero day.
    • Electron uses much more resources than FF. Because every company thinks they need a custom version of electron, every app brings its own bloaty electron environment, despite there being a system one.
    • Electron/Chromium is extremely buggy on Wayland + Nvidia, to the point I cannot use Spotify, Discord or Steam correctly.
      • gregorjan@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        Check tauri out. It’s not exactly that but it uses built in web renderer in os

    • black0ut@pawb.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Discord on Xorg is a mess too. It’s not even the electron part, the app itself is really bad.

      Not only it’s inefficient, but (at least in Arch) it doesn’t auto update on big versions. And instead of just warning you, it refuses to start until you manually install the new update. And god forbid if the package mantainers need a day or two to update the package, because until then you can’t use it.

      The funniest thing is, there’s a file in the app’s directory called “build_info.json” which contains the version number, and with a simple edit you can make it think it’s updated, and it suddenly works without problem.

      I really don’t know what they’re updating, but I have a version from 2021 running on my phone (it’s old and the new app is really slow), and it still works fine. Even after the account handle change and several other additions to the app.

      Oh, and for the Arch users: there’s a discord version on the AUR called “discord-canary-electron-bin” that uses system wide electron, so it should be updated faster than discord’s own bundled electron. I don’t know if there’s a non canary version of it, tho.

    • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      It’s more about WhatsApp ignoring Linux as a app platform (and the web app doesn’t have calls or screen share like the windows client)

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      using a dedicated FF [sic] instance

      If you don’t like having multiple windows open, you can keep them in dedicated container tabs on you main Fx (or favored Fx fork). I have a couple pinned like this in Librewolf now.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I heard XMPP is better though. Servers are way less hard on resources, its way simpler and just as secure. Decentralization, you can share all sorts of files and all, but video calls are simply done by another provider like Jitsi

      • anon5621@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        I am using both for enough long time,mutlidevice synchronization it’s nightmare in xmpp,also usual xmpp isplaintext.So when u wanna use encryptions like omemo so far not always guaranteed that ur encryption key will be delivered to ur new device which u connected.Also u cannot control sessions.So if u would be hacked u would not be notified,and u don’t have ability to kick out this dude session.But yes xmpp more light about resources and works faster for now.

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for the info!

          Yeah sessions should be controlled but are a pretty modern feature. Simply using strong passwords or even hardare OTP would be great. But for sure, a downside.

          Transferring private keys is interesting, this is pretty userul, true. signal to this day does not work here for me, so I prefer using it as a messenger, for temporary things. Afaik my matrix experience was better here.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Xmpp is long in the tooth, many basic things are missing, like sending a image with a text caption. Or sending a group of photos as an album, instead you can only make many many image posts.

        Lots of oh so small things

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        and just as secure

        The base procotol doesn’t have E2EE. You can do E2EE still but something to keep in mind.

      • root@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh interesting, I’ll check it out. I’m hosting my own server and I’m the only user on it, so it’s been pretty snappy :P

  • EP51L0N@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 year ago

    b e e p e r

    seriously best thing ever. even allows iMessage on Android. combines pretty much everything you just said into one app on all platforms.

  • Darken@reddthat.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    Whatsapp is apple of chat apps

    They feel so proud when they add the feature that telegram had since 1932

  • Aqarius@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I thought viber does have a linux version. I distinctly remember it bugging out and filling my storage with avatar copies.