Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by basemi » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by ranger_danger » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

README looks AI-generated, I wonder how much of the entire project was made the same way.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by neilv » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

Fine in b2b settings but in some b2c cases (particularly when the “b” side is some municipal or governmental entity - those LOVE Microsoft products) it’s kind of hard to get options.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by stuaxo » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:53 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

This sounds wonderful, many of us just need to work somewhere and other things are more important than some of their unfortunate software choices.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by lousken » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by badthingfactory » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:58 PM UTC

I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by denimnerd42 » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

I've never used teams, what's bad about it? my newco is moving from webex to teams for video but keeping slack. I'm a bit worried keeping slack is a short term thing.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by tom_ » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 12:08 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

The last couple of places I worked at used Teams, as did a number of the clients. We never found anything much better for the video calling aspect, and my understanding is that Teams comes for free with all the other Microsoft Shit - so you may as well.

I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on.

(I do remember it taking a long time to load, and apparently using a surprising amount of memory once it was finally done, but aside from providing reliable fodder for water cooler conversations with other 40+ year old colleagues this never actually seemed to cause a problem in practice. At my last Teams-using job I would restart my PC no more than once or twice a week, something I could let happen in parallel with making the cup of tea that I'd always be making at some point anyway. And it had 64 GB RAM, which isn't even a lot by today's standards, but still Teams didn't actually fill all of it.)

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by lillesvin » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 12:09 AM UTC

lousken wrote: post #6

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues. What issue(s) do you encounter?