[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[David Champion]

I use Google Hangouts and Meet, they work great on Linux, Mac, Windows,
Android, have never experienced a crash, and the UX is pretty standard.

-dc


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:

> Zoom has a browser client:
>
> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web-Client?mobile_site=true
>
> People use it because it's the only one that doesn't randomly crash or bug
> out that regular people can figure out how to use with the features users
> want.
>
> The UX for the others is awful.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 10:00 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I swear to friggin' frick'n'frack I am going to lose it. Why???? Is it so
> > friggin' hard?????? To use a video conferencing service that supports
> > Linux?????
> >
> > There are *plenty* of services out there that will work on whatever
> > operating system or browser you have. But nooooo...... everyone has to
> use
> > crap like GoToMeeting and Zoom. I found a top-ten list on TechRadar of
> > video conferencing software. Out of the ten, five of them run on Linux!
> > Some of them are even free!
> >
> > Those five are:
> >
> > * BlueJeans
> > * Microsoft Teams
> > * Google Meet
> > * ClickMeeting
> > * BigBlueButton
> >
> > At my employer, roughly 40% of employees run Linux on their workstations.
> > And yet people in the company still routinely send out requests from
> > GoToMeeting. Vendor calls are almost always that or Zoom or Webex. Bah!
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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