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Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by crims0n »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #8
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.

It is a worse slack client chock-full of Microsoft bloat. My company tried to move to it after getting an E5 license and the entire technology org screamed bloody murder until they reversed course.

IMHO… Slack and Zoom are the best combo. Zoom being necessary because for some reason Slack just cannot handle meetings well.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by skeeter2020 »

tom_ wrote: post #9
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…

Zoom, Slack and Google Meet all work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls. Teams freezes up, consume ALL your resources, going from one call to another and it just stops working. The only thing I've used that's worse is Chime.

>> 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.

This is an example of how bad it is: you had to have the chat UX explained to you. Combined with MS cramming as much crap into teams as possible and trying to tie you to their other products with integrations that barely or rarely work - and the AI features are terrible (and yet another MS AI offering called Copilot?). It really is that bad and I'm glad I no longer have to use it.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by beoberha »

neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

I’m incredibly biased (I work at Microsoft) but I love Teams. It’s a great meeting app and a great chat app. It blows my mind that there are companies that have totally separate apps for each (Zoom/Slack).

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by discordance »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #12
tom_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Zoom, Slack and Google Meet all work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls. Teams freezes up, consume ALL your resources, going from one call to another and it just stops working. The only thing I've used that's worse is Chime. >> 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. This is an example of how bad…

I keep hearing this on HN, but I never run into these issues with Teams. Video calling is fine and chat is ok. We generally just use chats instead of channels as that just seems like an unnecessary abstraction.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by darthcircuit »

beoberha wrote: post #14
neilv wrote: post #3

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

I’m incredibly biased (I work at Microsoft) but I love Teams. It’s a great meeting app and a great chat app. It blows my mind that there are companies that have totally separate apps for each (Zoom/Slack).

It’s more incredible to me that Microsoft has different versions of teams that don’t work with each other, but are named the same thing, and that the home version of teams that doesn’t work with enterprise teams comes forcibly bundled with an pro or enterprise os.
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