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Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#31
I've been using this for a long time and it works better than the official client (which I use on another computer) because it has less bugs.

For example the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to (has to do with the first click being ignored while Teams it's out of focus, and the second click being interpreted as a double click). The unofficial Teams for Linux doesn't have this problem.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#32

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

After a cursory glance at commit messages, looks like most of it.

Like all AI co-authored code it’s a matter of time before this becomes unmaintainable and abandoned.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#33
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?

I have one thats purveying over apparently linux, mac, chrome, firefox... when you screenshare on multiple monitors (or workspaces) the screen stops updating.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We use Zoom, Teams and Google at work. depending on the client each swears the other never works or is horrible.

I think we can all agree microsoft business video for skype or whatever it was called, was at least the worst

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#35

I’ve used the teams client in Ubuntu for years. It’s a pain when multitasking (text chat with another group then try to find your wayback to the existing video conference) but functions well enough

I had this happen a few times with the official client on Ubuntu back in 2020 or so: My laptop cpu and fan would go crazy and after a while I ran out disk space. I found a .so in the teams install directory was several hundred gigabytes. So I’d delete teams and reinstall. Then it would happen again a few months later. I actually caught it in progress inflating the same .so. I ended up uninstalling it permanently, luckily the team I was in didn’t depend on it, it was mostly hr that required it.

Appears they retired the linux version a while ago.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#36
post #6

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

Pretty sure any screen sharing from a browser app would use the browsers screen capture api, which should just use your desktops screen sharing portal if on Wayland. Maybe make sure you have the desktop portal for your DE installed.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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post #25

My Teams is completely broken on MacOS. Yes I tried uninstalling and re-installing multiple times. Nothing works. So I've resorted to using the very laggy Teams web app. What good has Microsoft done for the world other than digital pain and suffering?

Use this app to uninstall it https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ it should remove all traces of the app from computer

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#38
Hmm. A bit of weird anecdata; I'm a faculty point of contact for tech issues at my very (but not overly) microsofty university and also a very longtime Linux user.

But I seem to have a better time of things in this realm than MANY of my Windows/Mac colleagues re Outlook, Teams, etc precisely because I'm always relegated to the Web/PWA stuff. They often literally seem to have more issues than me.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#39

I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?

Beeper mini.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

#40

Teams itself can barely keep up with its own features, I wonder how an unofficial client would. Also, what's driving the need? I've taken a peek under the hood, it's just an electron app. It's not closed source (not opensource either, due to licensing) as far as I could tell aside from libraries that aren't part of it's app logic (graphics,audio,etc..). And there are webhooks for bot authoring. I'm just scared it wou…

It's wrapping the web version of Teams, so presumably there are few of the issues you suggest because most of the functionality comes from the page and it's just changes that impact the smaller number of Linux integrations that need attention.
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