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Lightest-weight video conferencing? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

Thank you!

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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Somehow I collect low-powered laptops.

Don't lie to us. It's not a mystery. I can almost guarantee 80%+ of the people in this thread have something they both collect and pretend it's a mystery/weird that they do.

I used to collect fixed blade knives. Had to give them away when I moved to the UK, not worth the hassle if I was asked about it.

Now I have the start of a collection of old mini-synths that I keep meaning to circuit bend but never get around to.