[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Jeff Chapin]

I use Zoom on Linux regularly -- you can download the desktop client for
most major distros.

On Fedora 31, I have no audio or video issues.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:26 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Jeff Chapin
President, CedarLug, retired
President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it"
President, UNI Scuba Club
Senator, NISG, retired