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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 Tor3 »

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.

They almost certainly do via the web interface, as I do (and lots of others). It works in general, though for some reason Teams via a web browser will often have problems seeing the microphone, or getting sound, even though every other web page using mic/speaker will work. And some other issues, like not showing a shared screen without first going to chats and then re-expanding the shared screen. When aware of all this it generally works ok.

The actual MS client for Linux is, as far as I know, non-existing now. Or at least not updated. It was anyway always completely useless for several reasons, in particular that it always stayed at 100% CPU.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jnsaff2 »

Gigachad wrote: post #78
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.

Haha, a few years back my wife got an M1 Air. It was amazing, for her regular work she charged it twice a week and was on battery almost always.

Then one day the company switched from zoom to teams. She now had to be plugged in constantly.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by 0ld »

I’ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job - chats work, calls work, presentations work, screen sharing works. or should I say mostly work… sure, it’s as glitchy as it ever was and may fail for any reason at any time, but you don’t really need an app to experience all that

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by mrweasel »

wizzledonker wrote: post #32
ranger_danger wrote: post #2

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.

I'm deeply fascinated that people can make this work at all. Just yesterday I had a fight with an AI regarding some Python code, the stupid thing wouldn't admit it didn't know how to use something and just kept spitting out the same lines of broken code. Then here is someone writing an entire functional Teams client with Claude.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by SG- »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #52
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.

growing up as a Mac user in the 80s and 90s I always found it a really dumb game.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jstanley »

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.

I used Teams in Firefox on Linux and didn't have any issues with it, other than it being generally slow and bad.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by SG- »

mberning wrote: post #27

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?

I mean that's like real life too right? you'll die eventually so might as well give up? or you might get hit by a car tomorrow too so yeah don't bother with anything.

Also lets forget the fact that some people actually like coding or wanted a fun weekend project.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

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 web-based one works perfectly on Linux. If anything it's better than the native Windows app.

Office 365 actually works better in Firefox in Linux than any other browser in Windows. It's like they've kind of given up on the whole OS thing, and have just decided to go with Linux.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by georgefrowny »

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.

> If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

Google Drive still doesn't work on Linux.

So much big tech shit just didn't care about Linux and it's even worse in Asia and industry where up to now you might as well grow three heads before you suggest not using Windows.

It'll eventually change, but at least in China it'll probably be an even more closed down Huawei or similar OS rather then Linux. Neither WeChat or the commercial variant have Linux support, and at least the latter doesn't seem to have a PWA alternative. So I have a VM that absolutely destroys fan and battery life.

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