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No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/micros

by posguy 3y ago

No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-is-now-available-on-linux/ba-p/1056267 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/end-of-the-road-for-teams-linux-desktop-client/m-p/3630968 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/end-o... Bing Chat is also crashing in Firefox on Linux when I go to use it, just the tab itself crashes :c Microsoft is coming full circle with their most recent embrace, extend, extinguish cycle it seems. Just gotta dodge, duck and dive around any attempts they make to get us dependent on their ecosystem...

codethief 3y ago
I use https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux . It's "just" a wrapper around the PWA but a very decent one at that.
tannhaeuser 3y ago
Bummer! That sucks as a freelancer with customers frequently relying on MS out of laziness. OTOH, at this point it's just another nail in the coffin for the Linux desktop that ceased to be usable anyway, even for work supported by the few age-old apps it has. Sadly, I can't even say I'm surprised, with Linuxers busy for well over a decade now to dutifully and sheepishly bring their workloads to "the cloud" and Chrome exclusively, and occupied with meta (non-)problems (wayland, containers). Looking forward to projects on Windows notebooks using Docker Desktop on x86!
- prmoustache 3y ago
  I am using the web version of teams on linux and it works fine (I mean it is crap but not worse than on windows). Not sure what nail you are talking about.
  - rkangel 3y ago
    Yeah, the web version of Teams is fine but doesn't support Firefox properly - e.g. can't make calls. This is annoying because Firefox containers are ideal for managing the multiple teams sessions I have for different clients.

by posguy 3y ago

codethief 3y ago

I use https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux . It's "just" a wrapper around the PWA but a very decent one at that.

tannhaeuser 3y ago

Bummer! That sucks as a freelancer with customers frequently relying on MS out of laziness. OTOH, at this point it's just another nail in the coffin for the Linux desktop that ceased to be usable anyway, even for work supported by the few age-old apps it has. Sadly, I can't even say I'm surprised, with Linuxers busy for well over a decade now to dutifully and sheepishly bring their workloads to "the cloud" and Chrome exclusively, and occupied with meta (non-)problems (wayland, containers). Looking forward to projects on Windows notebooks using Docker Desktop on x86!

prmoustache 3y ago
I am using the web version of teams on linux and it works fine (I mean it is crap but not worse than on windows). Not sure what nail you are talking about.
- rkangel 3y ago
  Yeah, the web version of Teams is fine but doesn't support Firefox properly - e.g. can't make calls. This is annoying because Firefox containers are ideal for managing the multiple teams sessions I have for different clients.