Hello fellow Zorinistas, I am currently using the whatsie application to use WhatsApp on my laptop however I find it glitchie, janky and extremely laggy so can anyone suggest a better working application for WhatsApp?
I use Zap Zap, works well
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Thanks for the reply, do you just uninstall WhatSie and install ZapZap and it hooks up to your WhatsApp account or is there anything tricky I need to be aware of?
is not difficult, the Whatsapp account is connected with a QR code, very quickly and easily
I must of used an alternate method with WhatSie ( I'm old so I can't remember 
) as I avoid QR codes like they're The Plague 
As far as I know, there's no official WhatsApp desktop client, at least for Linux. Personally, I find the web version to be enough.
Why? They're just like regular bar codes but can hold more information. Maybe this helps lifting the veil (it's a very interesting video to watch even if you're still not convinced):
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This is true, but after an FTC warning media seized on QR codes as scary and bad.
Since they're not human readable, using them to pass URLs can take you to imposter sites, attempt zero click vulnerabilities, etc., and if you're not paying attention to the URL when your phone decodes it, you can be suckered. The truth is that if you trust the app that generated the QR code or the person the provided the QR code, there's very little reason to be scared of QR codes--but just like everything else, if you don't know or trust the source of a QR code, you should treat it with caution.
As a side note, I'd like to throttle whoever decided all attempts at social engineering need a name that ends in "-ishing." Phishing, smishing, quishing, ugh. 
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Precisely why it's important to understand what QR codes are, and are not. Thinking they are safe without reason is just as bad as thinking they're unsafe without reason. Caution is always advised, as has been since the dawn of the internet.
The best "anti-virus" is common sense — the least common of senses, unfortunately.
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I never said I never use QR codes, I said "I avoid them like they're the plague" especially ones accessible in public places like say at supermarkets, one little stroke with a black marker pen and it's kaput and then there's malicious ones. I'm super uber security and privacy focused my particular focus is anti-Big tech ESPECIALLY google and meta hence I have a GrapheneOS phone which is ironically a Pixel
I think Veritasium's vids are mostly "Meh" however I did watch one last night "How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet" which was eye opening 
BTW I watched the vid you suggested 4 or 5 months ago.
You could maybe use Whatsapp Web?
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Whilst you state you donct like social networking you are using an app that owns Faceboik. I have never trusted Whats App from the early days. And earlier this year got hacked. I will only ever use Jitsi.
://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/whatsapp-security-attack-put-malicious-code-iphones-androids-9523698/
Additionally WhatsApp is not monitored for harmful content and linked to teenage suicides here in the UK.
Really? I think they're pretty good. And since they cover basically any topic, it's quite refreshing to watch as opposed to channels that always talk about the same things. But, to each their own.
Huh? Where did I say that on this thread? What I said was " I avoid QR codes like they're the plague" an extremely appropriate comment considering why I came to this conclusion in 2020 during the engineered covid pLandemic with QR codes being used to track people during this crime. I bought a Pinephone at the time to defeat this, "sorry my phone can not do QR codes"
I don't trust WhatsApp/meta at all (in fact I despise meta), I use W.A. very sparingly, I only started using it in the last half of 2024 when selling my house as the country I was in everyone used it in the Real Estate business, so it was by necessity.
I thought you misinterpreted social engineering which is not IT related, that is a different sphere altogether.
I referred to the covid pandemic as being "engineered" nothing to do with "Social Engineering" the worldwide governmental response WAS social engineering IMO ... "covid" planned and made/engineered in a laboratory "pandemic" planned at "Event 201" in October 2019 at John Hopkins University USA and was conducted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in other words "engineered" at this event. IMO !
I might try this instead of an app, is it fully featured like the android app?
No, you can't make video calls or voice calls, but this is not possible in linux with all whatsapp-third-party-provider-apps as they are all based on the web version.
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It's a bit limited in some regards but will work fine for the bulk of what it's supposed to do. Another option would be to control your phone from your computer, then you'd get the best of both worlds.
I think you'll need something like Waydroid for that. Or maybe through Zorin Connect, I'm not sure if it can do that.
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Move to Jitsi - it is far superior to anything out there. Needs a chrome based browser on GNU/Linux (https://meet.jit.si) or the Android App, JitsiMeet.