[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Jeff Chapin]

I forgot the URL:

https://zoom.us/download?os=linux

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:29 AM Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

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