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Working with an international team Zoom is the only one I’ve found that really works for everyone.

Teams is a horrid resource hog on MacOS and Linux - on MacOS I can watch it drain the battery, on Linux it messes with the microphone volume and often destabilizes the entire system needing a reboot.

Hangouts burns less CPU then teams doesn’t function without a gmail or gsuite backed account which makes it tough to use in business settings. Plus it comes with Google’s legendary “can’t talk to us” product support.

Slack’s attitude has always been “find out what people want and do the opposite”. Their grand plan must be to stand out by being the worst. The sales people must be really hot and dipped in cocaine, otherwise I have no idea why anyone pays money for Slack. Their video is also really unstable with a mix of low and high latency, include people from Eastern Europe and India and your back to typing.

Then there is Zoom - it works, it isn’t tied to a platform, it seems to have the lightest CPU and memory footprint, does well with a mix of international participants, really no gripes except for getting logged out every couple weeks.