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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by dangus »

jll29 wrote: post #160

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber…

I use Linux because I find that it has more capability than commercial operating systems for my needs.

I do count “running commercial software” as a need of mine. I would not be using Linux if I couldn’t run Windows games on Steam, 1Password, Slack, Discord, etc.

Nobody’s forcing you to install Teams, and someone out there is breathing a sigh of relief because they have another option besides Mac and Windows for running the programs they need to run.

I’m not really in a race to be the most opinionated user on the planet who refuses to use an app with a … or + menu, I just want a good OS that runs any program I might need.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by ArnoVW »

jacquesm wrote: post #71
le-mark wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

My guess: an entire VM wrapped in a binary

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by constantcrying »

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.

Never had any real issues with Teams in all these years, with lots of use. It worked just as well as using Slack.

All around it seems to be some of the better Microsoft Software, the interface is decent and does not get into the way, the functionality and feature set is pretty good as well. E.g. granting other people access to your PC is a pretty cool and useful feature.

I never understood the hate it gets on here. What particularly negative experiences do people have with it?

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by ukd1 »

jll29 wrote: post #160

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber…

Some customers (e.g. DoD, gov) basically exclusively use it, so you'd have to if you ever interacted with them. This is a win.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by surajrmal »

jll29 wrote: post #160

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber…

Because you work for a company that uses Microsoft teams most likely. It's not always a choice you get to make.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by osigurdson »

jll29 wrote: post #160

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber…

>> Why would I want to use Teams on Linux?

Well, I use Teams on Linux sometimes because I have a meeting and using a Linux machine at the time.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by a012 »

jll29 wrote: post #160

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber…

It’s for when your company gave you the freedom of installing linux on work machine but mandated Teams for company wide communication

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #108
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 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…

The biggest problems with Teams -- which I had to use daily for over a year and a half at my previous job -- is with its UX, not its implementation. I found bugs in the Linux client here and there, but they weren't showstoppers. But using it was just frustrating because it got in the way of communication and didn't work how I expected.

It's just not good. When you compare it to Slack, etc. it's just constantly awkward and getting in the way. And it tries to do too much, on top of that.

Slack is rapidly getting shittier though, so.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by osigurdson »

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.

>> MS should hang their head in shame

I hear this a lot but really, Teams works fine as far as I can tell. Click on meeting, check your hair on camera first, join meeting. It works fine 19 times out of 20 at least.

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