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Nobody forces anyone to install an OS, but he probably meant that he was pressured into, not by someone but by the very conditions of software. My example: I h
by ivanmontillam 5y ago
Nobody forces anyone to install an OS, but he probably meant that he was pressured into, not by someone but by the very conditions of software.
My example: I had to return to Windows a while back because I rely heavily on Zoom Meetings, and Zoom in Linux is just near unusable.
- joana035 5y agoZoom works okay in Linux via web browser. EDIT: I use Firefox.
- artemave 5y agoPlease elaborate. I've been pair programming on zoom for years (Ubuntu, i3wm). So had my colleague on Elementary and another one on Fedora. It's clearly usable. EDIT: via native app that is
- idontknowifican 5y agoit’s dependent in your window system. with wayland zoom is using screen shots to create a video feed in lieu of using the actual api because it would mean zoom has to respect privacy so no go
- nulbyte 5y agoI don't think Zoom's here choice has anything to do with privacy but rather incompetence. They didn't even bother trying to solve it until users intentionally flooded them with tickets.
- ivanmontillam 5y agoWhat I needed most back then was to remote control my peer's computer (as in, providing Tech Support) and that's where the UI/UX is not as polished as the Windows version. I didn't use the web version, because it's not possible to control the remote host that way. It was very quirky (taking control and giving up control + the keystrokes needed to be used in the remote host) and getting in the way of providing effective Tech Support (the meeting bar flickered several times). Anything else worked fine, like holding the audio meeting itself. So, I had to return to Windows, just because of Zoom. EDIT: Typo.
- kilburn 5y agoNot that I care about zoom, but screen sharing is in a problematic state since the introduction of Wayland: - If you use X.org, things are mostly fine because there are no security barriers and screen capturing has been done the same way since forever. - If you use Wayland, this used to be impossible because Wayland doesn't allow it for security reasons. To get screen sharing to work: 1. A new protocol had to be invented for it (pipewire) 2. Every compositor (read: every major Desktop Environment like KDE or Gnome) had to implement the funcitonality. Among other things, the compositor is now responsible for showing a permissions dialog where the user authorizes an application to capture the screen (or _a_ screen, or a single window). 3. Every application that wants to capture the screen/a window/etc. has to request access through this new protocol and read the capture through it. To make things worse, pipewire itself has been evolving, meaning that both compositors and applications may only support certain versions but not others. In the end, this means that if you are running the latest versions of all these things (wayland, de, browser) and enable all flags that say "pipewire" in your browser, it will work just fine. If you have older software it may work partially (e.g.: you can share a single window but not the entire screen and stuff like that) or it may not work at all.
- crawl_soever 5y agoI just launch zoom from Firefox and use the browser edition on Wayland. It will nag you to download a program, but you can skip that. Hasn't failed me yet.
- tata71 5y agoPeople here willingly use Zoom over Jitsi Meet? How come?