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Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?

• gtirloni 9y ago
  https://appear.in https://appear.in
  • dbcurtis 9y ago
    Blank screen on mobile Safari
  • ereyes01 9y ago
    This works great on Linux, as long as everyone has a solid internet connection. The mobile app has improved a little, but is still quite lacking.
    • thisacctforreal 9y ago
      What happens if one participant doesn't?
      • ereyes01 9y ago
        That participant's video / audio quality degrades rapidly. As far as I understand it, appear uses point-to-point webrtc connections for each participant. Another issue I've run into is that sometimes, I can hear/see a participant better than others on the call (I guess because of the way it handles connections). Overall though, the room url and the lack of login needed is super convenient, despite the occasional call quality issues.
• chasedehan 9y ago
  I'm curious as well - I have a really hard time getting videos to work on linux.
• kennydude 9y ago
  Zoom seems to have compatibility and works well.
• diggan 9y ago
  We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing https://zoom.us/pricing Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confusing on mobile devices (Android version at least)
  • ukaric 9y ago
    Zoom.us works perfectly with Arch +1 on that.
  • ereyes01 9y ago
    Zoom is rock solid on Linux. If they had rooms that were super easy to join spontaneously like appear.in, there'd be no reason to use anything else.
  • kees99 9y ago
    My biggest gripe with Zoom is that they have tech in place to seamlessly support open-standard connections (SIP & XMPP), but make their utmost to sweep both under the rug: SIP is $49/month/user and XMPP server isn't advertised as such and wouldn't let anything but official proprietary client connect, either.
• mccricardo 9y ago
  https://www.uberconference.com/pricing https://www.uberconference.com/pricing
  • joecot 9y ago
    I second uberconference. The audio conferencing quality is great, users have the ability to share their screen, and there's a call in number for people to talk over the phone. It's not videoconferencing, but for most meetings I think video is unneeded. It's free for up to 10 users, which is more than sufficient for most meetings, and $10 a month after that is pretty reasonable.
• amclennon 9y ago
  Zoom.us seems to work well using the browser extension alone. I've even gotten it to work in my Chromebook without any issues.
• schaum 9y ago
  https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/
• Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/ This is open source and free and so on
  • xstartup 9y ago
    I want to broadcast my desktop, so that anyone can watch it online and that's what Join.me does. How is it something which Jitsi offers?
    • Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
      I mean, it offers the same thing.
• 0x4f3759df 9y ago
  I use Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows, but it is also available on Linux.
• eat_veggies 9y ago
  I used https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/ for a job interview once and it was pretty slick.
• grover_hartmann 9y ago
  I dislike that zoom.us requires a proprietary plugin.
• taf2 9y ago
  Appear.in