[caseyavila]

My goodness, It’s as if [the bundling part of] this post speaks directly to me. I use Gentoo as my daily driver, and school forces us to use Zoom for classes. Like most other proprietary software vendors, Zoom chooses to bundle a great deal of shared objects along with their Linux binary. Gentoo however, chooses to let Zoom use the system libraries instead of those bundled. Through some sort of ABI incompatibility, Zoom’s use of my system’s libraries causes joining a class to get stuck on a “Connecting...” screen. It doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough to annoy my teachers, who end up having to let me in multiple times.

I don’t really want to run Zoom’s precompiled libraries, and the version numbers of the objects match one to one. But alas, Zoom probably modified the libraries to fit their own applications needs. I can only hope that a future update of Zoom magically solves my problems.