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> My company forces us to use Google Chat. I would take Teams any day.

For video or text chat or both? Meet + Slack is my preferred solution. IMO Google Meet is the easiest to use video meeting software. Click link and the person is dropped in the meeting. Slack is the best text chat.

Zoom is fine.

Teams is a dumpster fire on my mac. I have a couple external meetings that are Teams and I have to remember start trying to get on 5-10 minutes early. Otherwise I won't have time to force quit the client or restart my browser to make Teams work.

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Ironically I have had the exact opposite experience, it's interesting to see how the app behaves so randomly.

I used Teams on Windows for work last year and the performance was horrible on a relatively beefy workstation machine, getting into a call or loading a chat would have a visible lag or delay.

But using it on my personal Mac it was a fairly okay experience, just a run of the mill app I would say.

Perhaps the difference is O365 (Enterprise) Teams versus Teams for Life (Personal)?

It's fascinating how good the Google Meet experience is in contrast to how bad Google Chat is. Chat seems like such a simpler problem, but it's still missing basic features like working search

Google meet is the best experience in Linux as well. Joining a call through firefox or chrome on linux works flawlessly.

Have you tried using it via a web browser? https://teams.microsoft.com (If I recall correctly---it's been several months since I've had to use it). I found it worked much faster than the actual Mac app.

Don’t forget the random mic / sound issues and even worse the phantom rings lol. It sucks

> For video or text chat or both?

To keep things simple, I would like to use Teams for both.

I do not recall any issues on using Teams on Windows. On Mac neither, but most of my work is done on Windows, so even I am a Mac user I do not have that much experience of using Teams on Mac.

Edit. Even at the moment I am forced to use Google products at work for communication, I can't say that I have had any "issues" with those products either. I think the dislike/like is mostly about feeling. Maybe at some point in my working life I got used to Teams and that stuck?

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