[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Dave Hala]

When we used hangouts and meet alot, it always seemed like about half of
the end users had trouble getting into the meeting.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:30 PM Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com> wrote:

> 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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