Hello everybody out there!
On 2020/12/09 at 04:37 am, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody have any experience using Microsoft Team on debian, and is > there anything i need to be cautious about (of course apart from running > software from a giant software company)? Well, considering the pandemic, as many others, I had to test several solutions for distant collaborating. Well, actually, we are accustomed to doing this in free software and open source, so using Git, NextCloud or OwnCloud, mailing lists and Jitsi, you can very efficiently collaborate with distant collaborators. Now, very often institutions do not consider free software nor open source and without testing these options, run for proprietary solutions. I had to test Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Zoom works quite well, is expensive and everything runs on own Zoom servers—which I consider being a problem. Microsoft Teams do runs on Linux, except for screen sharing—you will not be able to share your screen, even using the web application. Except for that, you will not have more troubles than other users, but I have seen people using Microsoft Windows and macOS having trouble to connect with Microsoft Teams … Now, comparing Jitsi, Zoom, Discord and Microsoft Teams, my experience is Microsoft Teams is the worst of those solutions. In my experience, Zoom and Jitsi are the two best, from a user perspective and not considering the problem of proprietary software, the experience is the same with Jitsi and Zoom. Zoom has some options to create sub rooms—sorry, I cannot find the proper English word—, to do so with Jitsi you need to create several meeting rooms, which is a bit less efficient, but in my experience it is not a problem. With Jitsi, you can use your own server or servers from Jitsi.org. > Any advice about the web cam or mic? I use a webcam from Logitech with embedded microphone and it works very well. Best regards. -- Yoann LE BARS https://le-bars.net/yoann/ Diaspora* : yleb...@framasphere.org