"some times the left arrow to move the cursor doesn't work". Same bug in Windows. Select the button with the three dots "...", and hit escape when the menu pops up. Arrow key will start working again.

My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps -- and b) it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner.

A/V issues, navigation, inability to find an existing conversation / conference (happening now on another computer) on a GNU/Linux machine, etc are almost secondary.

> My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps

I needed to change my work password twice already because I accidentally sent it to somebody when Teams suddenly popped up and took focus away from my VPN client and I hit enter.

> it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner.

This also makes it impossible to resize the window. Well, sometimes. There are times when it works, and I have no idea what makes it work.

Thankfully, I usually use Qubes OS which doesn't let programs do these user-hostile things.

> This also makes it impossible to resize the window.

As a workaround, I'm pretty sure that KDE supports Alt (or meta) + right click for resizing.

KDE lets you resize compliant windows in this way, but Microsoft Teams for GNU/Linux is not compliant -- and consequently this does not work.

You can outright prohibit applications from starting on the foreground on KDE.

I wouldn't even try running Teams on Linux, as I'm sure it's an endless source of frustration (much more intense than on Windows or on the browser). But the one nice thing of Linux is that you can force apps to behave.

> can't have more than 4 people on screen in a video call

You can if you use it in Chrome. I thought Teams was an Electron application, which makes this even more strange.

I have all of these issues as well on macOS. The left-arrow is typically the most frustrating one to me.

Not Linux-specific! The Windows version suffers from at least 1, 2 and 4 in my experience.

It somehow tries to change my camera settings as well, fucking them up in the process.

As a cross platform desktop app developer I hate desktop linux. So many reinventions of the wheel that you have to support. Graphics, sound, video capture, GUI is all a mess.

Can you elaborate more? What would you prefer instead, with regards to developing for Linux?

There is X and now wayland. If you are doing something beyond basic you can quickly fall into needing two different implementations for GUI things.

There is jack, pulse, alsa and now pipewire for sound. On the system you can have multiple sound devices some available fully working only through pipewire, others fully working only through pulse.

If you want your app to integrate into your desktop nicely (basic thing like using tray icons) you can have completely different behaviors on different distros because there is so much variability.

Pipewire is now taking over a lot of things regarding audio/video. With fedora already fully on it. Great but the documentation is in a miserable state. Very few examples. Some distros while have pipewire running, using it for audio will just not work.

Understandable. It would be nice if a lot of the Linux DE were consolidated, at least for a "target" for developers. I'm genuinely hoping SteamOS 3 helps with this. Of course, this consolidation will come with issues as well, as we've seen with the dominance of the Chromium engine for browsers...