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Can't speak as to how it scales but I had to use both webex and Zoom in the past year. Paid corporate accounts etc.. No affiliation to either.

Webex linux support is unbelievably poor(literally, greater than a 1/2 days work to get it installed on linux). Sound quality deteriorates on international calls. Just really crappy experience overall.

Zoom has rpms/deb packages available. Installation- 30 secs.. Sound quality was crystal clear on international calls.

Webex is one of the few product offerings that makes me truly angry.

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Agreed! We use Zoom almost exclusively at Elastic. Since we're a fully distributed company, we rely on video conferencing pretty heavily. Zoom handles everything from a handful of people up to full-company meetings. It's pretty impressive to be honest, and doesn't try to melt a hole through your desk like Hangouts.

I use it actively on both Mac and Linux.

Not affiliated with Zoom at all, just a very pleased user :)

Last few months I have used Zoom, RingCentral, Skype for Business, Google Hangouts, and Gotomeeting.

Zoom was best followed by gotomeeting.

I really like https://appear.in - simple, straight-forward, and "just works". Don't know how well it works for more than two people, though. You can add screensharing with a Chrome plugin. It's all I need, really.

we use appear.in daily - it works well up to 5 people. It also has an interesting feature to allow you to "mute" certain participants, which works well in our use case where some participants can be in the same physical room. On "older" (say 2012 macbook pro), it easily pegs chrome at 100% CPU though

Paid Zoom works generally well, and much better on mobile than alternatives - you can also record meetings, and the recordings are of decent quality.

I'm another happy user of appear.in

There are still many improvements that are possible but at the moment, it's the best service I've used for video conferencing.

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