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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by fossuser on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:12PM (#22817199)
The Zoom client works really well, Webex works okay for me most of the time but not all the time and has a lot of little problems I find annoying.

- Overall webex UI is very slow/laggy, subjective - yes, but I think it'd be obvious to any regular person.

- It makes my self-view a tiny floating box (this drives me crazy, I want it to be the same size as the others).

- Gallery view doesn't work well, sometimes the speaker is duplicated in sharing content speaker view and again in gallery view.

- Audio switching doesn't work as well between putting airpods on and off.

- More video/audio failures than Zoom in general (enough to be annoying).

I'm not sure why Zoom is the only one that does Gallery view right - the others all seem to mess this interface up (maybe because they can't handle the traffic?)

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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by GordonS on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:32PM (#22817913)
I've used Webex for 5 years or so, and haven't experienced the issues you have.

Also, when I was evaluating conferencing systems for my micro-ISV, I tried several - the screen sharing on Zoom was laggy as hell, moreso than I saw with anything else. It was 1-2 years ago, so things might have changed since then.

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