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Comment by Arbortheus | Hacker News Reader

Just run these things in your browser. Despite the dark design patterns that try to trick you into installing their desktop client, the web-based versions are fine.

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not if you have to host meetings! the web versions are feature incomplete and don't support something as simple as screensharing with your camera overlayed in a corner (essential for recorded meetings).

the zoom linux client consistiently locks up my entire computer whenever i copy from the chat. ridiculous.

The web client definitely lacks features, but I fail to see how this is a client feature? You can share your screen and have your camera on at the same time. It's the recording server that decides how to composite those together.

it's a client feature because zoom is terrible. you composite camera and screen on your end so viewers see it on one screen, and the zoom cloud recorder records only one streaming source at a time. without third party integration i cant save my camera feed and screenshare at the same time in the web version. it's terrible.

You could do much of that with OBS and its virtual webcam, passed to the web client. It's a minor hassle to set up the first time, and is ready to re-use thereafter.

nope, because if anyone else talks the focus then shifts to them and nobody can see your screenshare. you have to instead use obs' popout preview and screenshare that specific window, which doesn't work if you dont have a second or third monitor due to always needing to be maximized.

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