Would this make it easier to consume and store Teams data locally, avoiding the need for tagging M365 Graph API, if the goal is to build analytics or automation on top of Teams for things my personal account has access to?
Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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True! I've been doing this for years on Linux. I use a dedicated Chromium instance in app mode: /usr/bin/chromium --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer --user-data-dir=/home/myuser/.config/chromium-ilri --app=https://teams.microsoft.com Works incredibly well (put this in a `.desktop` file with `Exec=` and you can launch it via your desktop's launch…
The only thing that does not work for me with Teams as chromium 'app' is the screen sharing (on Wayland). Does your --enable-features fix this?
Works for me, using Fedora with Plasma. Just fire it up in Brave, and install it as a PWA.
The one thing that bothers me is it can't tell if I'm at my machine when I'm not actively using it. People keep thinging I've bugered off from my desk.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#183The 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.
It works but it takes a long time to load.
I've got two customers that both use Slack for everything except calls. One does calls in Meet and the other one in Teams. I asked to the Teams one and they told me that Teams works for everybody every time. Slack sometimes has problems with the video or audio setup. Too bad, because huddles are only one click away.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#184For Linux made me instantly remember the phrase
"you can run, but you can not hide".
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#185The 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…
Techincally it works, but the UX is terrible. So many times I couldnt copy a message because of the stupid emojis popping up right below my mouse, so that you have opportunity to look dumb after sending a "heart" in a professional meeting about serious matter.
Also, it HAS to rename my files.
Also sending code barely works, and not for long messages
This is just on top of my head
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> 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.
> It works fine 19 times out of 20 at least. But for something you use 3-5x a day, that is a noticeable problem every few days. Why it has such an awful reputation.
So so all of the hate is just due to some dropped calls? Realistically it isn't even that bad (likely more like 2% failure rate). For me, I use Teams but it isn't like I am in the application all day. If it were 10X better I wouldn't care very much - like MS word vs Google docs or whatever. I care a lot about text editors on the other hand.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#187Nice! A screenshot in the readme would be a great addition. I was looking for a native macOS Teams client a while ago - but to my knowledge this is the first 3rd party Teams client.
The Microsoft Teams client frustrates me daily.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
> 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.
Same happens on the official app on windows 11 so the issue is not linux specific.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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Not a fan of slack. Teams is unjustifiably worse than slack. The only way you can hold this opinion is if you haven't been forced to use Teams.
At work for some reason we use both Slack and Teams because part of the company likes one and another part of the company likes the other, so i actually get to have simultaneous experience with both. I use both on Linux via Firefox (their tabs are pinned side by side). I prefer Teams because: a) Slack constantly forgets my credentials and i need to go through a whole dance of logging in, proving i'm human by clicking…
Oh interesting, I could say all of these same points for Teams.
Being signed out on Teams leads to a really slim banner at the top (of the already messy UI) that tells me to sign in again, the strip is even grey... the only reason I notice I am signed out at all is because I have notifications on my phone that aren't reflected in the Teams UI. This is a consequence of my IT department having short sessions, but the fact that this is how Teams displays it- is a fragrantly terrible UX.
The more annoying one is when my phone is signed out I just stop getting push notifications. There's no indication that I need to sign in again or anything. I think Slack would have the same issue with short session times to be honest, unless they send you a push notification every time your credentials expire which is also frustrating.
Teams working in Firefox is relatively recent, afaik it still doesn't work in Safari. I think I specifically had to install Chrome a few times to join job interviews that were conducted on Teams as Firefox definitely was not supported a year ago.
Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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mIRC and many other clients just sat there and did their thing. 30 years ago. Countless projects have been coordinated via IRC. This isn't a high bar for chat software. Teams fails every day at its basic purpose. Chats are confusing, the threaded ones being utterly useless. Constantly have to use the mouse to do basic stuff like address people or change channel. Stuff randomly breaks all the time, syntax highlighting…
mIRC fails at video conferencing, though. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Teams regularly fails at video conferencing. It complains of low network bandwidth at random times, and I check my firewall (OpnSense with fq_codel enabled and reasonable bandwidth limits) to note that it under very light load.
I am not sure if this is a server side thing at Microsoft, or a problem with the application itself. True under Windows, Linux, via local app, and via the web app.
For larger meetings (> 50 people), we use zoom. Unlike teams, zoom generally just works. Quite well in fact.
Teams is simply crap software, forced upon us. If we could jettison that and Outlook, I would be grateful. Though our IT looks at us in an unblinking stare, if we ask them to allow us to use any of the better clients on mobile, laptop, desktop, windows or linux. Its almost as if our third eye in the middle of our forehead opened up.