[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Andrew Denner]

Seconding the zoom browser. There is a setting you can add that will give
you the browser prompt at load time (the account we use for lug is already
doing this). There is also a zoom for linux app and it worked just fine on
the latest Ubuntu.
I have seen issues with Hangouts/Meet and video streams in low
bandwidth conditions but no crashes.
Facebook group video works aweful on computers, but ok on phones but again
the video is rough.


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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