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RANT: Zoom's Linux client is annoying AF (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just got rid of my last Windows computer and switched to Linux full time. I'm forced to use Zoom to attend online lectures at my university and WOW is the Linux client for Zoom terrible compared to Windows. For one, it doesn't have an option to have the gallery view above the screen share view, only beside it, which wastes screen space. It also forces itself into full screen mode whenever someone starts sharing their screen, AND when I switch it back to windowed mode, it's not maximized even when it was before. It also launches a blank "join a meeting" window alongside the active meeting every time I click on a meeting from Canvas (my University's course management system) or switch into a breakout group. Finally, for some reason it forcibly disables KDE's power management modes whenever it's active.

Screw you Zoom. Fix your shitty software on Linux!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I use the web version.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

How did you get a pre-scheduled Zoom meeting to not immediately tell you to install the app and actually go to the web client? I never even got an option to use the web version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

At the very bottom of the page there's usually a link that says: "Having issues with Zoom Client? Join from Your Browser"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

There's also a Firefox addon which redirects you automatically IIRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

If you click on the download and then reject it, a new link appears to open in web version. I am strongly considering figuring out how that works and creating a FF extension to generate those web links automatically.

I know my Linux environment is pretty sandboxed, but I'd rather go back to Windows than install Zoom software on any of my devices.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

There actually is a web extension: https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector