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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 jacquesm »

le-mark wrote: post #35
hdgvhicv wrote: post #23

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, luc…

What on earth was in that file?

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by Yumako »

jacquesm wrote: post #69

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else. Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

Some of my coworkers connect every day to our calls with Linux machines.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jacquesm »

Yumako wrote: post #72
jacquesm wrote: post #69

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else. Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

Some of my coworkers connect every day to our calls with Linux machines.

Yes, so? Some people win the lottery every month. But I don't play the lottery, so I can't win. But I also don't lose.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by usr1106 »

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.

I only use the PWA. Typing is not keyboard friendly, you need to use the mouse for formatting. Some keyboard shortcuts exist, but some don't work if you don't have an English keyboard.

It cannot keep track of what messages you have read, often you need to read the same messages twice. The set of emojis is limited (could be deemed a childish problem, but with 100% remote team emojis are important to have some fun). The layout of threads sucks, sometimes you have only a small side panel to work with. When you want to delete old notifications, it sometimes just says "Cannot delete".

It't the worst application I have to use at work. As soon as I have the possibility I will join a company again hat uses Zulip. Unfortunately those are rare.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jonathanlydall »

hosteur wrote: post #68

Please make an unofficial client for windows too. The official one sucks so much it is hard to even describe.

I use Teams on Windows extensively at work (for chats, calls, meetings, screen sharing). And I have zero issues with it.

It’s been really solid for me since that major overhaul they did a couple of years back.

Not sure what issues you have, but I wonder if perhaps that us NOT running 3rd party security products is a factor (we only run Windows Defender).

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by WD-42 »

jacquesm wrote: post #69

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else. Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

The saddest part is that they copy and pasted Skype, which was a decent program at the time.

If you open pamixer and look at applications using audio it still shows up as Skype there. At least as of a few years ago.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by happymellon »

mastazi wrote: post #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 Te…

I encounter this on Mac most days as well.

Teams is the pinnacle of bad Microsoft design forced on to everyone, even if they don't use Windows.

> But, but, but, what features is it missing?

Is always the response from Microsoft apologists. Why do I have to have different ways of calling depending on whether its a group or a chat? And chat calls don't alert the other person that you are even calling them? What a pile of shit. I know Slack also introduced shit huddles, because why not break something that already works, but that doesn't mean you have to copy them.

It's not always missing features, its that the UI is a series of papercuts.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by Gigachad »

jacquesm wrote: post #69

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else. Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

Teams doesn't work much better on Mac. It's easily the worst program I have to use.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by rf15 »

jonathanlydall wrote: post #75
hosteur wrote: post #68

Please make an unofficial client for windows too. The official one sucks so much it is hard to even describe.

I use Teams on Windows extensively at work (for chats, calls, meetings, screen sharing). And I have zero issues with it. It’s been really solid for me since that major overhaul they did a couple of years back. Not sure what issues you have, but I wonder if perhaps that us NOT running 3rd party security products is a factor (we only run Windows Defender).

I'm at the absolute opposite end: Teams was Good Enough when it launched, but declined ever since: you can no longer fullscreen screen share, fat empty margins everywhere in the UI and it nags you about addons and AI stuff.
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