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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by randunel on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:17PM (#22817258)
I'm baffled by the amount of people claiming zoom to be painless or working, even. Don't you know any linux users? Zoom is utterly broken beyond comprehension on any variant or flavour, even when `sudo`ing everything: installer, running, audio setup (pavucontrol) to try to figure out why it refuses to work, etc
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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by bitbckt on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:22PM (#22817312)
I only ever use Zoom on Linux (Ubuntu), and it works just fine every time.

My experience with Google Meet matches yours with Zoom.

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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by pawelk on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:04PM (#22817698)
I concur. I haven't tried Zoom on any other platform yet, but it has been 100% reliable on my Ubuntu machine. Nothing else even comes close. I've had hundreds of Zoom calls over the past 8 months, from 1:1s to all-hands with ~500 participants. Audio, cameras, screen sharing all worked every single time.
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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by antongribok on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:07PM (#22819162)
Same experience with Fedora on Wayland. Zoom is solid: audio, video, screen sharing. True for very large calls too.

Nothing else comes close on Linux for me.

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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by finder83 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:47PM (#22817554)
We have two Linux users (myself included) that it works great for. Better than pretty much every other video conferencing tool I've tried on Linux. I do use the flatpak installer so that dependencies aren't a problem.
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Re:Google bans Zoom from employees' computers by bvandewalle on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:56PM (#22817629)
Linux user here. I have tried them all and Zoom is not perfect but is multiple levels above any of the competitors. Don't even get me started with WebEx.
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