I gave up on the native Zoom client on Linux right away, it was completely broken. It worked well enough on a browser to get through the project though.

Same with Teams, the video calls work fine on a browser. You just can't use any background pictures or effects.

> You just can't use any background pictures or effects.

Thanksfully it is fairly easy to present a virtual webcam that is a composition of what your real physical webcam is showing and whatever background you want.

Can you give some pointers about this? I thought it's straight to kernel modules territory if I want a virtual webcam.

you can do it with ffmpeg but the most user friendly way is to use obs.

https://obsproject.com/kb/virtual-camera-guide

https://usercomp.com/news/1413136/ffmpeg-virtual-camera-guid...

I used that back in the days in 2019 / early 2020 when it was not yet possible to share your screen on msteams under wayland in chrome and firefox.

Thanks!

Teams in Firefox on Linux does work with backgrounds for me, and since a few months you can even upload custom backgrounds.

Actual calling works well enough, I would say it is more stable than the native Windows client ever was.