I installed the official .deb package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy) and then again on 24.04 (Noble) to see if this Electron-wrapped behemoth plays nice with the penguin.
It works better than Teams (low bar), but worse than Discord. It will keep you connected, but your battery will weep. slack desktop app ubuntu
Let’s be honest: Slack in a browser tab is the digital equivalent of a leaky boat. You have 47 tabs open, you accidentally close the wrong one, and suddenly, you’ve lost your draft to your boss. So, you turn to the native desktop app. I installed the official
However, if you are a Wayland early adopter or you rely heavily on drag-and-drop, you will rage quit. Let’s be honest: Slack in a browser tab
3.5/5 Stars (Works flawlessly until it doesn’t)
Slack offers the .deb file on their website, but that’s for casuals. The Ubuntu Software Center version works, but it lags slightly behind. The power move? sudo snap install slack . Yes, the much-maligned Snap actually wins here. It auto-updates (critical for security patches) and sandboxes the app decently. The Flatpak version on Flathub is also solid, though I noticed a 0.5-second slower startup.