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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 7952 »

dijit wrote: post #117
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you running it on a particularly potatoey PC? On my fairly ancient Core i7-8700 I can have a video call open in one screen and be editing in Resolve on another.

There's something weird going on honestly. On an i9-14900K, arguably one of the fastest CPUs in the previous few years (and excusing their design defect that causes them to die); Teams is significantly slower than on the Quallcom Snapdragon X-Elite, or my Macbook. It seems to perform the same as it would on an i9 platform as it does on i5 laptop's of the same generation (in terms of input latency and drawing to the s…

No idea, but I have found that edge can be more conservative in its use of GPU acceleration than Chrome. Maybe that is the case in the webview Teams uses.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by pjmlp »

georgefrowny wrote: post #90
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 L…

They only care to the point it is a cheaper UNIX, that is how its adoption took off in the dotcom wave, sponsored by big tech in first place, and only because there was a big question mark regarding BSD back then.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by 7952 »

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?

No idea if it applies here. But many people outside of tech start crafty projects as a way of regaining some control from stress and pressure. Its fun, rewarding and something you can do in a sea of things you can't.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by gausswho »

petepete wrote: post #122
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #108

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I use Teams every day (for work, the company basically runs on it) for chat and meetings, and I'm one of those strange people who never really have much problem with it. I can think of one occasion in perhaps the last six months when it crashed and I had to kill and restart it. Otherwise it just sits there on my laptop and does its thing. Same with Outlook etc. So, what am I doing wrong? How do I get the authentic Te…

Same for me, it works and allows me to do what I need to do. It does it neither gracefully or efficiently, but I think that's down to it trying to be everything at once, and the UI suffers as a result. The main thing that trips me up is that I often confuse my Outlook calendar for me Teams calendar - because they look almost the same but work completely differently.

> The main thing that trips me up is that I often confuse my Outlook calendar for me Teams calendar - because they look almost the same but work completely differently.

Makes you wonder how many teams does Microsoft have working on calendars.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by self_awareness »

Teams is good with video calls, but so was Skype, which was apparently used as the video backend system.

Rest of Teams? Abysmal.

Logging to text files? Missing. Search? Broken. Speed? Sometimes the UI jumps around and I click the wrong things, because UI hasn't been loaded by the time I'm trying to click something. Formatting? Sometimes it's impossible, and I need to edit the message after sending, to be able to properly format it.

If you don't have problems with Teams, you're simply not using them enough.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by gausswho »

StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #110
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Teams every day (for work, the company basically runs on it) for chat and meetings, and I'm one of those strange people who never really have much problem with it. I can think of one occasion in perhaps the last six months when it crashed and I had to kill and restart it. Otherwise it just sits there on my laptop and does its thing. Same with Outlook etc. So, what am I doing wrong? How do I get the authentic Te…

You are not alone. I also personally find Teams more than ok even if I wish it was more snappy. Meetings work great. Compatible equipment in room makes everything feel seem less. Collaborative editing and file sharing are both awesome. Every time it’s brought up on HN I get the feeling that people here use collaborative tools in a very different way I do. They mostly want something to chat via text which I and most o…

> Teams is not primarily a text chat software. It’s not built for this purpose as that’s not how most office workers collaborate. That’s quite obvious.

That's insightful. I gather your workday is a blend of collaborative document writing or video calls?

At work, I'm at my best when I'm not in meetings nor documents. I'm writing text all day, some for computers, some for humans. But I can see how I'm in the minority across the spectrum of knowledge work.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by happycube »

pjmlp wrote: post #128
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 really don't get what that team is up to, even ICQ would be so much better.

It's meant to be Just Good Enough to keep C-Suites from picking Zoom and Slack.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by tsukurimashou »

cycomanic wrote: post #112
EbNar wrote: post #100

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Teams is literally the worst program I have ever used. Whoever designed that interface should be publicly shamed.

As bad as teams is, there is absolutely no comparison to the crap that is slack. Just a number of things I regularly encounter: 1. Slack selecting speakers instead of headphones for call, even though I've used the headphones just before. 2. Calls ringing on my mobile that has been quietly sitting on the desk, instead of on the desktop that I've been typing on. 3. Mobile and desktop client being completely out of sync…

slack is shit but teams is worst
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