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Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by mrweasel »

figmert wrote: post #104
mrweasel wrote: post #85

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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.

Usually in those scenarios you stop and do the research yourself and correct it. You don't keep asking it. Also starting new conversations often help.

If I'm doing the research and needs to correct the AI, if faster for just write the code myself. My experience is also that even if I can point to where the errors are, and explain the actual API, I frequently still get the same, broken, result anyway.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by okayjustonemore »

osigurdson wrote: post #219
okayjustonemore wrote: post #204

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The hate comes, deservedly I might add, from a lot more than just dropped calls. Terrible UI. Horrendous performance. Bloated apps. Confusing UX. Completely broken integration with the desktop/browser. Teams is an absolute mess.

>> Horrendous performance When I click on something in Teams it shows up in (I'd say) < 300ms most times. I'm sure it could be much faster if done better. However, is that what you mean by "horrendous" or are you seeing 30s freezes or something like that?

Using Teams on Safari on a maxed out M2 Pro machine proves to be a ridiculously slow affair. Moving between sections takes ~1s, ending a call makes the sound crack for a few seconds in the most broken and awful way (while locking the UI in place for the duration), it refuses to understand what the browser’s back button is for, there are plenty of slow downs when using the chat... Surprisingly enough, though, the video part seems to work just fine, everything else, however, is a headache-inducing experience.

And I refuse to switch browsers just to use this disgrace of an app. If it’s supposed to work on the web it should not care which browser I’m accessing it from, otherwise a native app (read: not webview-based) should be made available.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by lousken »

lillesvin wrote: post #10
lousken wrote: post #6

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues. What issue(s) do you encounter?

it doesn't work "Your video isn't working. We couldn't access your camera."

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by lousken »

quasigod wrote: post #36
lousken wrote: post #6

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

Pretty sure any screen sharing from a browser app would use the browsers screen capture api, which should just use your desktops screen sharing portal if on Wayland. Maybe make sure you have the desktop portal for your DE installed.

That's not the issue. If other apps can screenshare but teams can't that's a teams problem not a DE problem. Also switching user agent to chrome fixes the issue (but creates a different issue where you can't join calls sometimes)

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by lousken »

kyriakos wrote: post #57
drdaeman wrote: post #47

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Screen sharing? Hold on, those extra-advanced features could wait. Microsoft should focus first on message delivery (notifications may be delayed for hours), showing media in chats (picture and videos fail to show most of the time) and just opening conversations correctly from notifications (message from a person opens a group chat, sometimes that forks a conversation, leading to loss of history). That’s the very bas…

Most annoying bug I experience is occasionally all messages I send not being delivered silently. You only realize it after a long while when no one seems to react to anything you say. Open in another device and you can't see your own messages. They are not delayed they just never get delivered. Such an unreliable tool being used in a professional environment.

Notifications worked back in the day, but 9/10 apps from that era do not exist anymore

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jacquesm »

lpcvoid wrote: post #222
woutercx wrote: post #214

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We use Citrix and Windows 11 in our work environment. I keep Teams open in Citrix so that I can copy links from the browser into the chat. The links then show the title for the link, I like that functionality. I also have it open on my Laptop as well (Windows 11) for doing calls and meetings. Our Citrix is slow, so I don’t do calls there. Fun thing is that often when I get a call in Teams it is automatically picked u…

Your technical work environment sounds horrible to me. Windows + Citrix is enough to send me screaming. Kudos that you pull through like that.

Pretty common for secure development environments.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by jacquesm »

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…

Of course they don't mind building their own tech stacks on top of Linux but forget about actual product support.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

shaneofalltrad wrote: post #201
Levitating wrote: post #158

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It's not that it hogs resources. The app is just slow. So so so so terribly slow. And half of the time it crashes. Or the video/audio doesn't work.

Exactly my case, powerful Ubuntu setup, App sucks, Teams in Chrome sucks, but soon as I run on Edge, no problems

Edge on Linux is probably my current favourite browser and I kind of want to hate that.

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by Levitating »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #248
shaneofalltrad wrote: post #201

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Exactly my case, powerful Ubuntu setup, App sucks, Teams in Chrome sucks, but soon as I run on Edge, no problems

Edge on Linux is probably my current favourite browser and I kind of want to hate that.

I didn't even know they had Linux builds, but I guess it's shipped by their linux repositories.[1]

[1]: https://packages.microsoft.com/config/

Re: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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Post by osigurdson »

okayjustonemore wrote: post #242
osigurdson wrote: post #219

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>> Horrendous performance When I click on something in Teams it shows up in (I'd say) < 300ms most times. I'm sure it could be much faster if done better. However, is that what you mean by "horrendous" or are you seeing 30s freezes or something like that?

Using Teams on Safari on a maxed out M2 Pro machine proves to be a ridiculously slow affair. Moving between sections takes ~1s, ending a call makes the sound crack for a few seconds in the most broken and awful way (while locking the UI in place for the duration), it refuses to understand what the browser’s back button is for, there are plenty of slow downs when using the chat... Surprisingly enough, though, the vide…

Good to know. I haven't used it on Mac yet, just Windows and Linux PWA.
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