[Discord][1] is a popular messaging application, which can be used for text and voice messaging.
It is a boon to several communities, which helps them to expand their projects, reach out to more people, and maintain a community of fans and followers. It’s surprising considering that Discord was originally meant for gamers.
Discord is available for various platforms, including Linux. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps for installing Discord in Fedora.
* Installing Discord using DNF and RPM Fusion Repository
* Installing Discord via Flatpak
The Flatpak packages are sandboxed and hence take more disk space and time to start. However, they get updated for newer version releases fairly quickly.
The choice is really yours if you want to use Flatpak or DNF. I’ll show both methods to you.
Non-FOSS alert!
Discord application is not open source. But since they provide a Linux client and many Linux users rely on it, it’s been covered here.
### Method 1: Installing Discord via RPM Fusion Repository
Discord can be installed by adding the nonfree RPM Fusion repository, which is the preferred method of most Fedora users, since updating is easy and the application starts up faster than the Flatpak version.
Open a terminal and use the following command to add the RPM-fusion non-free repository:
