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Just out of curiosity, what was it about Zoom that never worked well for you? I work with oodles of academics, and that was the singular reason they flocked to Zoom - out of box ease of setup / ease of use that trumped WebEx and GoTo Meeting.

Privacy considerations were secondary and only came to light (from their perspective) during the increased scrutiny brought during COVID-19.

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Their client software locks up my machine every other day. You can’t screen share on wayland. My coworker can’t run a build while on a zoom call or his machine just dies. The UI has never scaled properly on my displays. The zoom icon is distorted in my task switcher. You can’t use zoom in the browser. It’s a lot of little things that add up. I’ll admit I’ve never used zoom on Windows. Perhaps they've invested most of their effort on that platform. And credit where it’s due, when the video calls work, they work as well as any.

It is kind of surreal for me, that you complain that Zoom does not on Wayland. Even though i use Linux myself.

Zoom running on Plasma in X has worked fine for me for years. I would suggest that the problem (like so many others) is a Wayland ecosystem maturity thing, not a zoom thing.

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