[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Dave Hala]

I also had the performance issues with the Firefox browser with Jitsi and
GotoMeeting.

Microsoft Teams works really well in my browser in Linux.



On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:31 AM Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
>
>
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> Jeff Chapin
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