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Comment by gotaran | Hacker News Reader

Because Zoom is utter garbage. The competition is so much better.

Which alternatives have you found to be better?

Zoom isn’t great but Teams is worse.

I find Google Meet much better. It has superior audio and video quality and a vastly superior UI all inside the browser.

...as long as your browser is Chrome.

If you prefer to use other non-google browsers, performance is degraded and some features aren't supported.

I don't use Chrome, works fine for me.

I cannot stand Zoom. I had that it tries to install its crapware on the computer.I find Google Meet to be perfect for what we need.

Same here, I just click an URL and I'm in, I close and its gone.

Compared to all the other gymnastics one has to make to get the exact same functionality, plus having to install malware and whatnot, it's a much better UX.

I like it more - the recent addition of time limits is unwelcome but free can’t last forever.

Teams has persistent chat, instant messaging, integration into enterprise toolset and custom handlers for teams who want to build their own apps. Teams isn't perfect but my experience has it leagues beyond what Zoom is capable of.

Last time I was on teams 2 months ago they still hadn't solved large meetings. You could switch to a different mode to show more people on the screen, but it was extremely blurry, missing parts of the normal UI, and still cut people off after a relatively low number.

My experience with very large meetings on teams has been presentations and the vast majority have been fine. My everyday usage is with 2-20 people at most, so if seeing everyone is important, I can see where someone would prefer zoom as their video streaming tech is better.

I concur with the other opinions. After having used Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google meet in the workplace, I've found Google Meet to easily be the best option.

It feels like I'm taking a big step back when I have to use Teams or Zoom.

Frankly, Google Meet works fairly well.

Idk in the long long ago we used skype and slack. They weren't that bad. On slack you just message someone when you get an idea, and then have a skype call to discuss it. End of drama.

What do you recommend?

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