Must be nice to be Teams' product manager and see this. /s
Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#42I use this a lot and it works well.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#43Why would you do this? What purpose does this serve other than to create additional misery and suffering in this world?
Because your company is all in on teams but you prefer to use linux when possible. It gets the job done for chat and calls.
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#44I 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?
Teams will always work in a browser, so make hay whilst the sun shines.
Sadly bits fall off depending on which browser you use. Firefox seems to have fallen out of favour and can no longer share. Chromium efforts still seem to work OK. I have sometimes found that faking my browser agent helps with stability ... which is sad and possibly rather disingenuous.
I must get around to spinning up a Jitsi jobbie. BBB should be my favourite but is a non starter due to elderly software in the stack. I need to take another look at all this stuff.
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#45My 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
I should complain on Hacker News more often. That worked! Finally. Thank you!
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#46If 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?
My screen share went from fine to low resolution all the time. Really annoying.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#47If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...
Screen sharing? Hold on, those extra-advanced features could wait. Microsoft should focus first on message delivery (notifications may be delayed for hours), showing media in chats (picture and videos fail to show most of the time) and just opening conversations correctly from notifications (message from a person opens a group chat, sometimes that forks a conversation, leading to loss of history). That’s the very basics for every messaging app, and even those don’t work properly.
(This is about official Windows and iOS Teams apps. I haven’t yet tried any GNU/Linux options.)
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#48Alternative 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).
Teams is the only meeting app where I am usually late because it doesn't just let me join my meeting. Zoom will never lock up letting you join a meeting because someone decided you need to reauthenticate Teams regularly.
This would be understandable if it happened quickly but normally Teams has a seizure for a minute or two when you try to join the call and then you get told to sign in. Whoever allowed this behavior to ship should be fired out a cannon... when I click join a call, absolutely nothing should stop me from joining a call.
In fairness this might not be explicitly Teams' fault. It's built on top of a terrible authentication platform which also seems to be down at least four or five days a year. 365 is one of those things that could not exist if not for the incredible monopoly Microsoft has over Excel.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#49If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...
I agree. Screen sharing in Teams used to work in Firefox but not in the current version (144). It works in Chrome though.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#50I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.
I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links.
I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lunch, or whatever.
I use firefox for my main browser; and teams doesn't work great there. So I have to use Edge or Chrome. But then, when someone sends a link in Teams, it opens in that browser. This unofficial client acts like an actual standalone app and opens links in my default browser. Now if they sent a link that lands on some other office365 thing, there is about a 15% chance that just won't work ;)
But yeah, if you are able to mostly avoid this POS, then those 2 things likely don't matter and PWA is fine.