On 26/01/2021 16:22, Bob Williams wrote:
Hi,
Is anyone using Microsoft Teams? I see there are .deb and .rpm packages available.
I'm asking as some of my correspondents can't/won't use other means of communicating, which means I risk excluding myself. Hello Bob,
I use it daily for chat, voice/video calls, Office document edition/review, screen sharing, etc. In general, a few of the advanced features are "Windows-only" (taking control of a remote screen, for instance, or setting a fake background during video calls), but the Linux application installs flawlessly from .rpm, updates itself, and has proven quite robust (Leap 15.2). Integration with the Linux sound stack is unproblematic (at least as far as I'm concerned). The constant barrage of notifications can soon become obnoxious, but that's Teams for you. You can enable or disable the notifications per channel of course, but when you have tens of them, that's a chore as well. No particular issue other than that. Or perhaps a minor one: it insists on installing itself in your Autostart folder (~/.config/autostart/), which is not a decision I think an application should take. HTH Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> Disclaimer | Use of IBA e-communication<https://iba-worldwide.com/disclaimer> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.