Looks like it. What do other linux uses do who need to participate in Zoom 
meetings? Does the Zoom browser work better?

I believe that the Microsoft Teams web browser client runs on Chrome on Linux

Also supposedly Microsoft has Linux binaries for teams, see
https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-microsoft-teams-on-linux-from-the-official-ms-repository/

I only have 1 client that uses this kind of conference software, and they use 
Webex.  Webex
Is also available for Linux:

https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/9vstcdb/Webex-App-for-Linux

The Webex free plan gives you 40 minutes the free MS teams plan 60 I believe.

Note that I have not tried any of these (zoom, teams or Webex) under Linux, 
sorry.  My Webex client is a Microsoft house. (with the exception of a CentOS 
sftp server used for backup for their phone system and around 10 access points 
running OpenWRT)

I don't know if you have control of both ends or if you are required to use 
Zoom but if you do have control of both ends I would try the other 2 contenders 
out.

Also a lot of people have Macs I have a Mac laptop (it's older and runs 
Catalina) that I haul out from time to time to build stuff on.

Normally I DO NOT recommend Mac laptops because the price value is ridiculous, 
you can plunk $4k down on a modern Mac Probook that will have rings run around 
it and be kicked in the ass by a $2k modern Intel laptop running any version of 
Linux you can find.

But there is a loophole and that is that since the Mac community is mostly made 
up of people who are like Tesla drivers, they want everything handed to them on 
a silver platter, any Macs that are no longer "orficially" supported by Apple, 
are rapidly dumped by that userbase into the trash and you can find tons of 
them on Fleabay for decent prices, here is a representative sample:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225370261270

Couple a unit like that with the following:

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

And you have a decent Mac running the latest MacOS for prices comparable to a 
decent PC running Linux.

My Probook is a 2009 model and runs Catalina perfectly.  And under the GUI, 
MacOS is Real Unix it's "realer" than Linux, even, since part of it came from 
FreeBSD and part came from NeXT.  I have yet to find a Linux application that 
hasn't been recompiled to run on MacOS

Ted

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