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this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Even if it exists, then it does not have to be good. Look at Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams???
I also hate it but unfortunately have to use it for work.
It's a stopgap but Teams for Linux at least gives you Wayland support, choice of seperate window sharing and background filters
Even if you look at Windows native version - it's still trash. The chat client is disgusting bad.
I used browser when I had to use it
They made it basically unusable with Firefox, so unless you also want to install Edge it really sucks
Every damn thing?
It's so horribly slow and resource hungry. It sucks a ton of memory, a lot of cpu. Every time I start a video call the cpu fan goes brrrr
That's just Teams on every platform though?
Absolutely!
No separate tabs to do various things at once. You can pop out chats and calls, but that's about it.
It also struggles to connect with the right audio device everytime.
It has indeed improved a lot over the last 2 years or so and is now actually quite a mature product, as much as I hate to admit that about an MS product. My biggest gripes with it are its refusal to acknowledge you may be using multiple devices (to this day) and MS's insistence that a person only do one thing at one time (can't edit calendar items while checking a chat, for example). Their Linux app is a joke and I'm better off running it from Chrome. The phone app makes the WiFi interface crash constantly and I have to run it off 4G; it is the only app I have this issue with.
Which brings me to another gripe. Teams documentation insists that screen sharing on Linux is not supported, and sure enough you cannot see the option for it while on a call with someone. However if you are in a meeting (with however many people), the option magically appears and works absolutely perfectly.
Apologies for the late reply, still getting a hang of this!
By multiple devices issues I meant the following. Sometimes for example, I am on a Teams call on my phone but want to use my laptop to view screensharing stuff and join the call there too (without hanging up the phone). Teams will insist that my audio switch over to the laptop too and I have to manually disable the audio on the laptop and re-enable it on the phone. It shocks me that such a mature offering from a massive corporation still cannot figure out that I may want a screenshare/audio split onto two devices and ask me at least. Another smaller nag, if I want audio only on the phone, it will constantly bug me to tell me the incoming video is switched off. I kind of understand this however, I get that they want to let the average user know why there is no incoming video, but surely there ought to be a "leave me alone" setting for this.
skype > teams