[nvr219]

I'm not in startup world or in San Francisco so I gotta ask: is Google Meet popular with y'all? I'm on video calls pretty much all day every day and I'm mostly on Zoom or Teams, and I attend more WebEx meetings than Google Meet.

[agartner]

Yes we exclusively use google meet. It's very nice. I feel pain every time I have to use anything else.

[aloisdg]

Coming from jitsi, it is a pain when I have to use google meet.

[zamadatix]

I'm out of the midwest and work in a customer facing role and this is what I see out here:

In the last ~year I've noticed what seemed to be like a wave of everyone going to Zoom really slowed or in some sectors reversed. There seemed to be a period where it seemed every O365 shop was getting Zoom to do meetings. Lately though I've seen more switch back to using Teams (which admittedly isn't as horrendous for larger calls anymore) as the first choice but not necessarily getting rid of Zoom completely. To be honest the larger the place the more likely they have more solutions.

Meet (and Google Workspace in general) remains a powerhouse in the education space but larger traditional enterprise seems to have problems staying with it when they make the switch often flipping back fully or sometimes mixing it by department. Can't say much about smaller enterprise beyond generally they go with bundled solutions if they are tech or office focused (e.g. Google or Microsoft) or whatever is cheapest otherwise.

I still run into a few Webex calls but really I haven't seen 1/10th as many of these as I used to by ratio. It's basically in the "other" category at this point with things like RingCentral and GoToMeeting.

[FeistySkink]

I'm not in SF either, and on Linux with Firefox on Wayland Meet just works with my camera through a capture card, external audio interface, screen sharing, etc. Every single time. I cringe when somebody mentions other tools, especially Teams. The only other tool that just works is whatever the calling software AWS uses and Jitsi.

[darkwater]

Well well well, Meet creeps many features if you don't use Chrome, Chime UI is so bad that a kitten dies each time someone uses it and finally Zoom works pretty nicely with the Linux client (they finally added almost all the features there lately), while Teams well, yes, it sucks.

[FeistySkink]

Did Zoom fix window sharing with Wayland?

[zamadatix]

I think that got fixed a couple of months back but, like pretty much any other working wayland screen sharing, you need pipewire running (which your DE may do for you depending what you use).

[blowski]

Yes, because it’s free and easy to manage as part of Google Apps. It works well most of the time, although lacks a few of Zoom’s bells and whistles.

[boomanaiden154]

Google Meets has some other bells and whistles that I don't think Zoom has comparable features for though, particularly companion mode. Being able to join a Google Meet on one device (like a phone) and join on another device for screen sharing was something I found myself doing quite often when attending online meetings and having a "Tfirst class citizen" method for that was awesome.

[granneman]

Zoom allows for the same thing: connecting via both phone and another device for screen sharing.