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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 tom_ »

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 don't disagree about the chat UX. The chat vs channel distinction was not at all clear when I started using Teams, at least not to me, and actually not to any of my colleagues either, and it was a large part of why we quickly started using Slack at that place. It wasn't until I did some work with a client that had long gone full Microsoft that I encountered somebody that had an idea of what was going on.

(In fact, it's not really that complicated. If you squint right, it might even be more useful than what Slack gives you! But something about the UI just didn't make it remotely obvious.)

Anyway, even if the text chat isn't awesome, for video calls, we never had a problem, and it scales pretty well with number of participants.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by CoastalCoder »

65 wrote: 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?

> What good has Microsoft done for the world other than digital pain and suffering?

Minesweeper was kinda fun.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by wanderingmind »

Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia. However, I love my Debian+ i3 too much to give it up. Using it through chrome is not easy especially to chat. So, I install it as appomage through appman and it works beautifully well that I can automatically update as well.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by roygbiv2 »

darthcircuit wrote: post #18
beoberha wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's so fucking bizarre that there are multiple versions of the same thing, that are called the same thing but aren't the same thing!

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by chrneu »

drdaeman wrote: post #47
lousken wrote: post #6

If 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 bas…

lol android/windows user here. all those bugs are so common, it's hilarious how bad teams is.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by kyriakos »

drdaeman wrote: post #47
lousken wrote: post #6

If 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 bas…

Most annoying bug I experience is occasionally all messages I send not being delivered silently. You only realize it after a long while when no one seems to react to anything you say. Open in another device and you can't see your own messages. They are not delayed they just never get delivered. Such an unreliable tool being used in a professional environment.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by DANmode »

jrm4 wrote: post #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.

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