I use Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows, but it is also available on Linux.
Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
#12We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confu…
Zoom.us works perfectly with Arch +1 on that.
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
#13https://appear.in
This works great on Linux, as long as everyone has a solid internet connection. The mobile app has improved a little, but is still quite lacking.
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
#14We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confu…
Zoom is rock solid on Linux. If they had rooms that were super easy to join spontaneously like appear.in, there'd be no reason to use anything else.
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
#15https://jitsi.org/ This is open source and free and so on
I want to broadcast my desktop, so that anyone can watch it online and that's what Join.me does. How is it something which Jitsi offers?
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
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#17We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confu…
My biggest gripe with Zoom is that they have tech in place to seamlessly support open-standard connections (SIP & XMPP), but make their utmost to sweep both under the rug: SIP is $49/month/user and XMPP server isn't advertised as such and wouldn't let anything but official proprietary client connect, either.
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
#18I used https://appear.in/ for a job interview once and it was pretty slick.
Re: Ask HN: Is there something like Join.me for Linux?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
This works great on Linux, as long as everyone has a solid internet connection. The mobile app has improved a little, but is still quite lacking.
What happens if one participant doesn't?
That participant's video / audio quality degrades rapidly. As far as I understand it, appear uses point-to-point webrtc connections for each participant. Another issue I've run into is that sometimes, I can hear/see a participant better than others on the call (I guess because of the way it handles connections). Overall though, the room url and the lack of login needed is super convenient, despite the occasional call quality issues.