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by not2b 1902 days ago
My wife has been doing a ton of Zoom on an Ubuntu system on a Dell laptop, using their native app. She hasn't had problems.

Clearly your experience differs, not sure why.

Of the proprietary video meeting apps, they all have problems, but Zoom sucks less than Teams, Webex, or Skype and is a lot easier for non-technical folks to use.

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I'm in the same boat. I use Zoom frequently on Linux and it's performance is quite acceptable. I use Zoom successfully on other platforms as well. It compares well to altneratives such as Google Meets which in my experience starts to fall apart past a certain number of participants on a call. Quite interesting to see the variance of experiences as it doesn't match what I've observed personally as well as comments I've heard from colleagues who have tried various systems. I hear lots of praise for Zoom and Teams but Meets is either loved or hated.