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On linux, Microsoft teams will change your system sound settings to match its preference. This includes Bluetooth headphones no longer being available to the sy
by OrderlyTiamat 4y ago
On linux, Microsoft teams will change your system sound settings to match its preference. This includes Bluetooth headphones no longer being available to the system. Then, it decides the system settings are beneath it and will only use its own device settings. And it will decide now that your fancy Bluetooth headset is gone, there is also no need for that crappy internal microphone either, so enjoy not having any microphone. Once you get all this working through however many steps it requires of you, teams will happily forget your settings and will require you to do it all over again.
Teams binds to the previous account, so if you want to login to another account (say, if you're both a student and have a job) you have to log back in to the last account, totp and all, before you can logout and log back in to the account you want. There are no back buttons.
Teams is shit. I use it because I have to, but its ridiculous how bad the UX is and its a shame, because I think microsoft can do better.
I've heard the interoperability with teams and office365 is phenomenal though. Multiple people editing the same document, while in a call presenting that document, security of the files all settled in the cloud with easy to use interfaces. It sounds great, I don't really use any of that. To me, teams will always be a crappy voip tool.
- airtonix 4y agogoogle does all that "edit documents while on a call" too, and it's not shit.
- kristopolous 4y agoInstall Microsoft Edge for Linux and use the web version through that. Really, it's a great solution. I've done it for a while. I don't use edge for anything else but it runs teams.microsoft.com great
- merb 4y agoit does not display calls notification tough.
- OrderlyTiamat 4y agoI do this too now (except I use the chromium skin instead of the edge skin). I think this is about the same experience minus the device and settings issues. Also, don't try to do this with firefox: various features (such as sharing your screen) are not available in firefox.
- yrro 4y agoBefore installing Edge I checked out the maintainer scripts bundled into its deb. As a result I have vowed it will never sully any machine I am responsible for maintaining.
- OrderlyTiamat 4y agoAny particular horrid details you'd like to share?
- yrro 4y agoI seem to remember it messing around with libraries in /usr/lib (overwriting symlinks from other packages IIRC). Whatever problem they were trying to solve, hacking around in the postinst script with files that you don't own is not the right solution!
- weberer 4y agoWhy Edge? It works fine in Chrome and Chromium.
- JeremyNT 4y agoI don't know if this is still the case, but Teams has a history of behaving differently based on the user agent presented. I assume they will always want to make it work "better" in Edge. Having all of the MS junk walled off into its own browser that you use for nothing else isn't a terrible idea either, regardless.
- 4ggr0 4y agoThe funniest thing on my Linux laptop is that when I check the OS-menu where I can control every Applications volume, MS Teams is diplayed as "Skype"... I use the official Microsoft Teams Preview for Linux or whatever its called, no idea why they decided to call it Skype in the Application Settings. Can't even really be legacy stuff, as far as I know a Skype for Linux Application never even existed.
- jtvjan 4y agoSkype has always had a Linux client. It was a nice Qt app that looked like the old Windows client. Unfortunately, it was replaced with an Electron app in 2017.
- 4ggr0 4y agoWait, my bad, I always forget that Skype was also available for consumers, and that part definitely had a Linux client. What I meant was Skype for Business. I had to use a Windows VM, which only use was running Skype for Business so that I could join meetings and call colleagues etc.