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"Mac support is coming later this year." That means proper Linux support is coming some time between never and when hell freezes over. It can't be a proper gene
by bastard_op 4y ago
"Mac support is coming later this year." That means proper Linux support is coming some time between never and when hell freezes over. It can't be a proper general service when the vendor simply won't properly support other operating systems as they do their own.
They had the electron Teams drivel for Linux that at least worked slightly better than the web version, but even that got relegated to be scrapped by M$, telling everyone to just go use the crappy web version, which never really works right for me under Linux/Firefox.
Even when I used native Teams on a Windows VDI instance for customers, it is still horrible for resources, requiring a ram upgrade just to use it, with audio randomly working, restarting the client several times a day when I was using it to restore audio, Windows or Linux, and was quite painful. My last customer wanted to move their existing telephony (Cisco) to Teams - I said good luck and riddance with that and left them to their folly.
At the same time, I used zoom for anything I tended to schedule, and I NEVER have those problems with the Linux client there. Same with Google's conferencing, and WebEx, only Microsoft remains as the most commonly broken thing I use for conferencing or communications in general.
It's amazing the stuck-in-their-ways enterprise Micrsofties out there so used to broken Microsoft things that they just stick with the default checkbox Teams as an "easy" telecommunications solution. M$ gives it away like crack to enterprises for a taste, first hit is always free, everyone feels good for a bit, then they hit with the up sell tax.
Then you realize it has limits and problems... Friends don't let friends use Microsoft.
- wink 4y agoNot to defend Teams here (it's still worse) but I've had the Zoom client crash on me 100% of the time when I screenshare on Linux, only since the latest version - and of course I could not stay on the old one... Reported it and hoping for a new version, but of course none has happened in.. quite a while.
- BaseballPhysics 4y agoMeh, as long as they continue to offer Teams as a PWA, I really don't understand the concern. I already use Teams through Firefox and, unlike your claims to the contrary, with the one exception of notifications, it already works far better than the old Electron app, including proper Wayland screensharing and hidpi support.