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by arrayjumper 2063 days ago
> Native is nice, native is fast

Only if you are using a Mac. On linux, the zoom client is neither fast nor (in my admittedly slightly subjective opinion) nice.
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WolfRazu 2063 days ago
Zoom is Electron isn't it? That's not native.
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shp0ngle 2063 days ago
No, it's native. At least on Mac.

edit: judging by `strings`, it's Objective C/Cocoa app on Mac. As native as it can be. No idea on Linux.

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Johan-bjareholt 2061 days ago
It's Electron on Linux and what's being discussed is that it's slow on Linux. Nobody refuted that it's slow on macOS, it was even stated.
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shp0ngle 2060 days ago
I will need to check if you’re right.

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just judged on dependencies of the deb package, it looks like a native app. But, I will check the actual app.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installi...

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monsieurbanana 2063 days ago
That's an interesting anecdote, as I've only used zoom on linux, but not really related to what you quoted.
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arrayjumper 2062 days ago
Interesting. I'm curious what machine spec you're on. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an dell laptop (XPS 7590 with an i9 processor, 32gb ram, discrete Nvidia graphics card).

I see my processor spin up to 90% utilization whenever I do a zoom call.

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