> MS Teams installation:? Neither linux nor macos install Slack/Discord/etc for you out of the gate.
In all fairness, iMessage probably counts. Not that I consider "but Apple also does bad things!" to be a defense.
In all fairness, iMessage probably counts. Not that I consider "but Apple also does bad things!" to be a defense.
That said, it's hard to compare the two given Pidgin is a general purpose communication tool without vendor lock-in (e.g. it's also an IRC client, has peer-to-peer mode, etc), and most Linux installers let you opt-out of these sorts of bundled software.
I think the real issue is some might find MS Teams to be obnoxious software (I suppose, I barely have used it)