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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by ElectricalUnion on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:51AM (#34957814)
I myself run it in Edge, specifically because I believe Microsoft is less capable of exfiltrating and collecting my data effectively that Google.

That and the "official" "Linux" app is basically unsupported.

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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by ornornor on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:43PM (#34961601)
MS dropped support for the “Linux” “client”.

That client was basically an electron app.

How lazy is it to drop support for it? Especially as they’re pretending to be nice now, not hate Linux anymore, rolling it into windows etc.

MS will always be the greedy MS. Embrace extend extinguish.

Fwiw, teams runs well enough in chromium. I don’t use chromium for anything else so chromium has basically become my MS teams “Linux” “client” since they dropped support for it.

I’d run it in its own Firefox container but it would seem like MS purposefully cripples teams in Firefox as I can’t get background blurring or live captioning/translation to work there.

Just like google that requires you to use chrome AND be logged in to unlock background blurring… same evil, but story for another time.

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