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I've been using meet.jit.si for pair programming because it's one of the few collaboration tools that allows multiple people to share screen at once. I'll put my coworkers screen on my 2nd monitor, and that setup has been really productive.

CoScreen is the rare tool that would also fit into this workflow.

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Great to hear! We're huge Jitsi fans and it's actually the video backend of CoScreen.

If you want to know the whole story, watch the conversation between CoScreen CTO Jason and Jitsi mastermind Emil Ivov which we published a couple of days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nODpF8JjHE

Looks amazing. I love that you guys have Doug Engelbart subtly in your demo video on the main page. Finally we can do something Doug was able to achieve 53 years ago! No seriously, great work. This is what computers are meant for.

As a Linux user I have to ask, when is the Linux release? As soon as that's out I'm throwing zoom away.

CTO of CoScreen here: It has been a grueling labor of love to get where we are, and there still is a lot of work ahead of us. And we can only acknowledge the shoulders of the giants we obviously stand on, like Doug Engelbart.

Linux is definitely on our roadmap.

We want to know which distros are you most interested in for us to officially support first?

I'm an Ubuntu user but Debian in general is good. I'm sure others will chime in.

Thanks for the feedback: Ubuntu LTS will definitely be one of our first supported targets.

We hope to provide some universal binary, but ultimately our testing and in-house resources for verification are limited, and we dogfood our solution every single day on every one of our supported platforms.

It will be interesting to see how widely adopted Wayland will become: CoScreen is very dependent on a lot of display server/OS level wizardry that honestly was unexpectedly difficult to achieve.

One option is to go with snap and/or FlatPak as a distribution method which could cover more distros.

The eternal answer "on our roadmap", translates from PR-speak to actual-speak: "no significant userbase to justify any work".

I guess we'll stick with gnu-screen and tmux for the time being.

Totally understand your frustration. We started with macOS, then delivered Windows in around 3 months (just launched) and will tackle Linux next but granted that it is a ton of work given our deep integration into operating systems and we want to get it right.

I realize your skepticism to my original answer, but I am 100% earnest about our intentions regarding Linux. It isn't a secondary concern for us, and we know how important it is for engineers.

Most of the developers on our team are avid Linux users.

My previous job was writing eBPF security drivers and device drivers, and I have used Linux for years.

Linux is very near and dear to our hearts, and when I say it's on our roadmap, I mean it.

Flatpak

Ubuntu LTS vote from me

Engelbart was a terrific Easter egg.

Coincidentally we're based on 8x8.vc, and good friend with the folks at Jitsi.

It's an amazing product.

We're considering in the future opening up the ability to point CoScreen to your own private Jitsi deployment (Technically this is possible today, but through our unsupported inspector tool).

So your video won't touch any of our infrastructure.

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