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1. philip+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 21:47:25
Zoom isn't buggy I wouldn't say. It's really good.
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2. epista+P2[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:02:26
>>philip+(OP)
That's been my personal experience, but colleagues on Linux are continually fighting it.
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3. distan+49[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 22:35:37
>>epista+P2
I gave up on the native Zoom client on Linux right away, it was completely broken. It worked well enough on a browser to get through the project though.

Same with Teams, the video calls work fine on a browser. You just can't use any background pictures or effects.

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4. Vorpal+Zg[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 23:20:35
>>distan+49
Teams in Firefox on Linux does work with backgrounds for me, and since a few months you can even upload custom backgrounds.

Actual calling works well enough, I would say it is more stable than the native Windows client ever was.

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5. prmous+9l[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 23:42:00
>>distan+49
> You just can't use any background pictures or effects.

Thanksfully it is fairly easy to present a virtual webcam that is a composition of what your real physical webcam is showing and whatever background you want.

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6. distan+xF3[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 21:15:40
>>prmous+9l
Can you give some pointers about this? I thought it's straight to kernel modules territory if I want a virtual webcam.
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7. prmous+xD8[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-06 09:59:21
>>distan+xF3
you can do it with ffmpeg but the most user friendly way is to use obs.

https://obsproject.com/kb/virtual-camera-guide

https://usercomp.com/news/1413136/ffmpeg-virtual-camera-guid...

I used that back in the days in 2019 / early 2020 when it was not yet possible to share your screen on msteams under wayland in chrome and firefox.

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