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teams works fine on windows and Linux but flickers heavily in my Mac. my Mac is asking me every login for my exchange creds despite having authenticated severa

teams works fine on windows and Linux but flickers heavily in my Mac. my Mac is asking me every login for my exchange creds despite having authenticated several times. my Mac is running hot and depleting battery without any discernable reason at random occasions. the esc key on my mbp 2019 itself is a bug in my opinion.

411111111111111 5y ago
> teams works fine on windows and Linux I have to disagree there. It's so frigging laggy that it feels unusable as a communication tool.
- 74d-fe6-2c6 5y ago
  I use it only at work. It has many issues. Lagginess isn't one I noticed.
  - eitland 5y ago
    Teams is a case study in subtle and not so subtle bugs and ux issues: Just yesterday we spent time in a team meeting because someones Teams instance was malfunctioning. Sometimes restarting the application completely (be aware it idles in the systray) works, other times restarting the pc or disabling (or enabling) hardware acceleration will work. Other times it helps to move it to the built in monitor it seems. And sometimes, like yesterday, nothing including - all the above, - disabling incoming video - and reinstalling the application works. As for UX issues there's clicking on "join meeting" and continue working for a few minutes until you realize "ah, the first join meeting doesn't join the meeting, only opens the join meeting dialog". Another winner: when you click on the 7 more people icon to see who else are online and it does nothing. Or the fact that joining a started meeting is a multi step process (find calendar, find today, find the meeting click join and join). Yesterday I'm also sure I had an instance of sound getting through before I joined. Still, somethings works flawlessly for me: jumping seamlessly from one device to another during a meeting is fantastic. Sound is OK for me. Background switching is ok etc etc.
- foepys 5y ago
  I have a very beefy laptop at work but with Teams I'm feeling like I'm using my old 133 MHz PC again. Everything takes so long to open that I'm growing increasingly mad when using it. Plus the statuses of my contacts are consistently wrong.
- vladvasiliu 5y ago
  I'm not sure whether that's a Linux specific issue. I've used teams on an older MBP and also on newer PCs (8th gen i5) with Windows, and the lag is always there for some reason. I've found ticking "disable animations" helps a little.
mathstuf 5y ago
Hmm. I've not had any success with Teams on Linux. Oddly, the behavior is also quite client-dependent: - Chromium: infinite login loop because why not - Flatpak: login works, but says my account isn't eligible for Teams (which blocks joining as even a guest?) - Firefox: doesn't even ask for a login and I can join, but no audio or video (either direction); chat works though Note that I only join existing meetings, never create any, so why I can get to the call without logging in on Firefox, but am blocked from even joining elsewhere is a real mystery to me.
- washadjeffmad 5y ago
  Also using Teams on Linux, but this one happens to all clients. There's an authentication bug that causes a log in loop for anyone who signed up for a personal account using an email address that they also used as part of another MSN/live.com service (eg- as a secondary address), especially if your original Teams/O365 account was converted to a domain/business account. If you log into live.com with your Teams email, add a different fallback email and remove your current one, that may help.
ansgri 5y ago
Well, Teams has problems using my external USB mic on Linux Mint 19.3, when e.g. Zoom has no problems with it. Otherwise no significant bugs using Mint for last 5 years or so both on desktop and laptop.
psychometry 5y ago
Stop using crappy Microsoft products. It's not Apple's fault that MS is terrible at UX.

411111111111111 5y ago

> teams works fine on windows and Linux I have to disagree there. It's so frigging laggy that it feels unusable as a communication tool.

74d-fe6-2c6 5y ago
I use it only at work. It has many issues. Lagginess isn't one I noticed.
- eitland 5y ago
  Teams is a case study in subtle and not so subtle bugs and ux issues: Just yesterday we spent time in a team meeting because someones Teams instance was malfunctioning. Sometimes restarting the application completely (be aware it idles in the systray) works, other times restarting the pc or disabling (or enabling) hardware acceleration will work. Other times it helps to move it to the built in monitor it seems. And sometimes, like yesterday, nothing including - all the above, - disabling incoming video - and reinstalling the application works. As for UX issues there's clicking on "join meeting" and continue working for a few minutes until you realize "ah, the first join meeting doesn't join the meeting, only opens the join meeting dialog". Another winner: when you click on the 7 more people icon to see who else are online and it does nothing. Or the fact that joining a started meeting is a multi step process (find calendar, find today, find the meeting click join and join). Yesterday I'm also sure I had an instance of sound getting through before I joined. Still, somethings works flawlessly for me: jumping seamlessly from one device to another during a meeting is fantastic. Sound is OK for me. Background switching is ok etc etc.
foepys 5y ago
I have a very beefy laptop at work but with Teams I'm feeling like I'm using my old 133 MHz PC again. Everything takes so long to open that I'm growing increasingly mad when using it. Plus the statuses of my contacts are consistently wrong.
vladvasiliu 5y ago
I'm not sure whether that's a Linux specific issue. I've used teams on an older MBP and also on newer PCs (8th gen i5) with Windows, and the lag is always there for some reason. I've found ticking "disable animations" helps a little.

mathstuf 5y ago

Hmm. I've not had any success with Teams on Linux. Oddly, the behavior is also quite client-dependent: - Chromium: infinite login loop because why not - Flatpak: login works, but says my account isn't eligible for Teams (which blocks joining as even a guest?) - Firefox: doesn't even ask for a login and I can join, but no audio or video (either direction); chat works though Note that I only join existing meetings, never create any, so why I can get to the call without logging in on Firefox, but am blocked from even joining elsewhere is a real mystery to me.

washadjeffmad 5y ago
Also using Teams on Linux, but this one happens to all clients. There's an authentication bug that causes a log in loop for anyone who signed up for a personal account using an email address that they also used as part of another MSN/live.com service (eg- as a secondary address), especially if your original Teams/O365 account was converted to a domain/business account. If you log into live.com with your Teams email, add a different fallback email and remove your current one, that may help.

ansgri 5y ago

Well, Teams has problems using my external USB mic on Linux Mint 19.3, when e.g. Zoom has no problems with it. Otherwise no significant bugs using Mint for last 5 years or so both on desktop and laptop.

psychometry 5y ago

Stop using crappy Microsoft products. It's not Apple's fault that MS is terrible at UX.