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I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on.
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy.
The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through notifications about topics I’m not interested in. I know there is a “turn off notifications” by conversation. But that’s not helpful when there are new conversations all the time.
- mijowi 4y agoMaybe azure is actually millions of idle windows machines instead of datacenters.
- piokoch 4y agoPhew, only those two things? How about not being able to copy stuff from chat (for some reason this does not work since Skype for Business times)? How about being kicked off from the current chat if one dares to open MS Word/Excel from within the chat? And that's just the beginning of the annoyance. But, luckily, we can easily integrate our chat with MS Stocks application, and, even better, with MS Power BI! I have always impression that MS employees cannot use Teams, otherwise they would have noticed that something gone really wrong here. On the other hand, those are people who gave the World the (in)famous Windows Millennium Edition, so everything is possible.
- trinsic2 4y agoI always here that Microsoft employees should know that their software never works that great. I often wonder somebody must know what Microsoft employees think. I mean, don't Microsoft employees talk to people outside of Microsoft?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoSure, there are numerous other small annoyances, too. Ever try to paste code into a chat message and format it before sending it?
- kristopolous 4y agoI just disable all notifications. Life's better that way
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoCan't do that if I want to keep my job. Expectations.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoIt's probably mining crypto when idle.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoHadn't thought of that - maybe you're right.
- cpach 4y agoYowsah. I’m so grateful that I’m not required to use Teams frequently.
- noisy_boy 4y agoDoes Teams have a docker image that you can run with cpu/memory limit?
- ClassyJacket 4y agoWhatsapp drives me crazy with this too. You can only mute for 8 hours, 1 week, or forever. No other options. Just let me choose how long to mute for, a billion dollar corporation could surely afford that. And a single 'custom' button wouldn't ruin the 'clean UI' or whatever they're trying to maintain. This problem is an annoyance. The slowness of Teams, however, is unforgivable. There's no excuse why a chat app from 2022 should run slower on an 8 core Xeon with 64GB of RAM than MSN Messenger did on my Pentium box in 2000.
- anthk 4y agoBy just 4X the RAM and an AMD Athlon XP you could do inline LaTex, embedded video and images and a lot more under KDE3 and Kopete as the IM client (KDE3's "gaim/pidgin"). Now 1GB is not enough, not even with 2GB, that's borderline usable with XFCE4 and Alpine Linux and ZRAM (my Celeron notebook setup). You can browse stuff fine with UBo and Chromium with privacy and performance tweaks (git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters), but if you launch heavy stuff (Glibc gcompat stuff such as Teams) will keeping a bunch of tabs open, the speed grinds down a lot.
- criddell 4y agoSurely you don't expect a lean, resource starved company like Microsoft to build native applications, do you? Microsoft doesn't care if the net power use of their very popular application burns up gigawatts of electricity every year rather than megawatts. At least not when the development cost is 1/4 cent per user rather than one cent per user.