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Ironic for me. 2019, 2021 and half of 2022 were the years that I went all in on Ubuntu for desktop. It was an overall awesome experience as a developer.... and
by jerrygenser 4y ago
Ironic for me. 2019, 2021 and half of 2022 were the years that I went all in on Ubuntu for desktop. It was an overall awesome experience as a developer.... and then Zoom and Slack started crashing randomly or having weird bugs where I'd needed to restart the app or even the machine in order to get them working again.
2022 is the year I switched back to windows as my development experience with WSL2 + being able to use Zoom and Slack without them crashing or getting random bugs.
Even running Linux GUI apps works well on Windows. Run evince file.pdf from the wsl2 command line and evince opens.
The one thing that doesn't integrate well is linux disk encryption utilities and windows. I wish I could use LUKS/cryptsetup but ended up giving up and using Bitlocker.
- kibwen 4y agoNote that you don't even need apps, you can just use Zoom and Slack from your web browser. (For Zoom especially, nobody should be trusting their native client in the first place after their security debacles. Your browser is a convenient security boundary.) If your browser locks up to the point where it requires you to restart your machine, that sounds like a much more serious problem.
- ajb 4y agoCame to say that too. Zoom nags you about their app every single time, but it works in a browser.
- palata 4y agoI like Jitsi, because it is open source and it is not Zoom.
- blep_ 4y agoThat's... not really useful for those of us who need to talk to other people using Zoom.
- palata 4y agoOut of curiosity: what makes it mandatory to use Zoom? Jitsi runs in the browser (just like Google Meet, btw, which I still like better than Zoom), so it should not be a permission issue.
- jerrygenser 4y agoEveryone else in the company using Zoom