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What are the best Slack clients for Linux?

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Slack For Linux vs Slack-term vs Ripcord

 vs ScudCloud vs mattermost client vs Antergos vs plaidchat

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Arch Linux

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Cinnamon / GNOME 3 / KDE / i3 / MATE / Openbox / Xfce/ Deepin

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Systemd

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Pros + Cons

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 Utilizes more resources as it is built on Electron

The official Slack client is built on top of the Electron framework and is quite a bit more resource-intensive than some of the alternative clients.
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 Officially supported by Slack

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 Native notifications

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 Still in beta

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 Slack on a web browser can interact with local app

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 Great Performance

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 Not an officially supported client

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 Minimal CLI Interface

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 Snap package available

The link posted has Snap packages which help simplify the installation process.
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 Written in Go

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 Very fast due to not being based on Eletron

It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users. It's not built on top of web browser technology: it responds quickly to input, sips gently from computer resources, and gets out of your way. It does voice chat, too.
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 Compact app which uses less than 20 MB of ram

Very low RAM Usage compared to official slack app
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 Not FOSS

Ripcord is shareware. They have a trial AppImage available, but you have to pay 20 dollars for the full version. Also, you can't recompile it or easily package -- which means it can't be managed by your distro's package manager.
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 Tab layout allows for better organization of conversations

The addition of tabs along the top makes it much easier to hold several conversations at once.
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 Doesn't run properly under Wayland

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 Text selection does not work

Only whole messages can be copied.
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 Unable to identify who sent emoji responses

There is no way to tell who responded with emojis on messages. Sometimes this is actually really important.
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 Very ugly interface on modified system widgets

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 Outdated

Maintenance for this project has diminished, with the native client offering a better experience.
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 Pointless

Uses QtWebkit under the hood, which makes it have no benefit over the official application.
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 Has become fairly heavy

Recent versions experience significantly higher memory usage over time.
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 Has packages for popular distributions

ScudCloud has packages for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
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 Free and open source

It's free and open source, released under the MIT License.
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 Native notifications

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 Channel quicklist for Unity

Ubuntu Unity's dock menu (accessed via right-click on icon) allows quickly switching to the needed channel.
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 Icon badges

Count of undread notifications will be overlayed over the launcher icon.
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 Lightweight

Installation alone was less than 1MB.
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 HiDPI Support

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 is not a slack client

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 Cross platform

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 Open source

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 Interoperable

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 Uses electron

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 Surprisingly stable Linux desktop

From popular distros of rolling and standard releases, compared to Debian (stable) and Arch, Antergos stability rocks. Debian is stable, however, it's with old packages and Arch. The only thing that broke it, so far, was compiz-manjaro (C++ 0.9 branch) from AUR, but compiz in Antergos repositories is 0.8 and it is working flawlessly.
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 Rolling release model make is easy to keep apps on updated versions

Antergos is a rolling release distribution (as it's based on Arch Linux). Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream—with only a minimal delay to ensure stability.
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 Tray integration

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