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I fundamentally disagree. Webex has been around longer and despite the zoom founder trying to trash it, has been more reliable for me.

They just apparently spent their money on building an enterprise-worthy app instead of marketing.

https://help.webex.com/en-us/n80v1rcb/Cisco-Webex-Available-...

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We use Webex at work and it's pretty reliable. Only issue I can think of off the top of my head is on Windows, Webex will sometimes freeze. Some colleagues have attributed that to certain bluetooth devices. I've personally not had that happen but have been in meetings where it did.

Edit: Ok, that took all of 10 seconds to get the first downvote. Seriously?

I would guess your colleagues are onto something. We've got a wide mix of Windows and Mac users and can't say I've heard of anyone reporting problems with freezing.

Ditto.

They say they have a Linux app... but Zoom is available in official repos, Flatpak, the Arch AUR, SUSE community, etc. That's huge for me. I don't really have any interest in blazing a new trail to use a web conferencing app.

AUR is not an official repo, and zoom is not in Arch Linux repositories either.

I didn't mean to imply that is was.

There's nothing in the official repos because it's a java plugin on Linux. That being said, it works with OpenJDK:

https://at.projects.genivi.org/wiki/display/TOOL/WebEx+on+Li...

As far as I know that's the only option on Linux.

One pattern I see with videoconferencing is that there never is a tool that works for all. WebEx was great for me but a lot of people complained. We had less complaints with Zoom and as of now Teams works best. I don’t expect this to last though.

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