Teams is so horrific we banned it. If you force us to use teams you'll have to find another supplier. Seriously, it is incomprehensible that Microsoft would ship something so utterly broken. I know they don't have a reputation for writing good software but Teams is on another level, and I don't mean that in a positive way. I've really tried to get it to work but it is so messed up that I don't think it can be done. Meanwhile, even Zoom 'mostly works' (though we don't use that either). Eventually we standardized on Google 'meet', it works most of the time, we had a single issue in four years of intensive work and that was mostly related to a Google meet Chromebox auto-updating in the middle of a meeting (brilliant) and then never coming back up again. It serves well as a small PC now, we cancelled our subscription and just use laptops and desktops with webcams.

What really bothers me about all this: we had the basics of these setups working in 1995, and since then enough time has past that this should be a complete non-issue. But there is no interop between the various systems, everybody tries to push their own little walled garden and it breaks randomly for no apparent reason. If the phone system had been built like this we'd still be living in a disconnected world.

It's so weird -- I use Teams all the time and I've never had a serious problem with it.

It's not the greatest software ever made but it's certainly functional. It's definitely getting a lot of work done to it.

kdtsh

Likewise, I don’t particularly like it but it’s fine. My biggest gripe is nonexistent official Linux support - I hate having to use a package maintained by one person on GitHub to get a desktop application for Linux, when this application is so critical for my day to day. But besides that it works fine.

MaKey

The Linux app doesn't even support screen sharing when you're using Wayland. I was forced to try out the browser based variant (meeting link opened the web variant instantly instead of giving me the choice to use the app instead) and can now finally share my screen (even single windows!). Also I can now use backgrounds, which the app didn't support.

kdtsh

That always frustrated me, even more-so considering how that volunteer-built package I mentioned (https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux - an Electron build of the web app, nothing flashy but does the job just fine) does support screen sharing. I haven’t checked whether it supports backgrounds as I only use voice when on calls, but I’m guessing it does if the browser variant does.