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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can also get Teams on Linux

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That's a little less surprising to me. Organizations are likely to pick competing communication software if Teams is not available to everyone. Web browsers are generally interoperable after Microsoft lost the war to popularize one that wasn't.

[–] danielquinn 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Really? All I've seen is a Flatpak that's really just a wrapped web view. Is there now a native version of Teams for Linux?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The native windows version of teams is also only a glorified web view.

[–] danielquinn 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not been my experience. It may be using a web view under the hood, but the functionality is quite different. Additional features, breaking the video call out of the primary pane, etc. To suggest that they're essentially the same is not accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I see literally no difference between the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions except 2 shortcomings on Linux:

Camera support is abysmal and uses the lowest resolution
No echo cancellation, so I need headphones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hmm, seems that you might be right. I haven’t tried but remember that there were both rpm and dep packages, however it looks like after Teams 2.0 came, the native packages are no longer a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Both the Windows and Linux ones are wrapped web views.