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    279 points arkadiyt | 13 comments | 22 Mar 20 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 1.492s | source | bottom
    1. igetspam ◴[23 Mar 20 00:42 UTC] No.22660232[source]▶
    I had no idea there was even a web version. Does it work in Linux? Zoom often leaves me with broken audio and I really dislike having to have more rarely used software trying to stick around in memory. I uninstall it after each use, purely out of spite. This is great.
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    2. Old_Thrashbarg ◴[23 Mar 20 01:11 UTC] No.22660376[source]▶
    The web client has never for me on Ubuntu.
    3. runarberg ◴[23 Mar 20 01:23 UTC] No.22660427[source]▶
    On Ubuntu + Firefox I can see other people, but I can’t hear anything, nor can they hear me (I don’t know if they can see me)
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    4. y0ssr3n ◴[23 Mar 20 03:07 UTC] No.22660898[source]▶
    Couldn't get it to work on the latest FF Beta on Ubuntu 19.10 but the web client worked totally fine on Chromium.
    5. edoceo ◴[23 Mar 20 03:09 UTC] No.22660910[source]▶
    Works great for me, Gentoo, 4.20 kernel, Xfce, Chrome and Firefox.
    6. arprocter ◴[23 Mar 20 03:10 UTC] No.22660916[source]▶
    I believe they recommend Chrome, so you might want to give that a try
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    7. tjpnz ◴[23 Mar 20 04:15 UTC] No.22661213{3}[source]▶
    It's like we're back in the 90s again.
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    8. X6S1x6Okd1st ◴[23 Mar 20 05:17 UTC] No.22661442{4}[source]▶
    Except now the webapp is real time video and voice chat
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    9. RMPR ◴[23 Mar 20 06:31 UTC] No.22661727{3}[source]▶
    Chromium should work too, no?
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    10. Vinnl ◴[23 Mar 20 08:13 UTC] No.22662069[source]▶
    They only support Chrome, and you can only view one other person at the same time.
    11. jccalhoun ◴[23 Mar 20 12:29 UTC] No.22663369[source]▶
    I don't know about linux but it works with Chromebooks. Since chromebooks are common in education and zoom is big in education, I'm sure they will keep that version going for a while. On a chromebook it asks you to download a chrome addon but it gives you a link to the web-only version too.
    12. komeijist ◴[23 Mar 20 15:05 UTC] No.22664775{5}[source]▶
    The joke was (at least to the best of my knowledge) that nudging people to use chrome is further reinstating their monopoly, leading to a browser landscape comparable to IE days, which would not quite be the 90s, but close.
    13. saltcured ◴[23 Mar 20 22:30 UTC] No.22669491{4}[source]▶
    Yes, zoom web view worked for me on Fedora with Chromium from the Fedora repo.

    As stated elsewhere, it doesn't show the same thumbnail/gallery view of non-speaking participants that you can get with the native client. I was able to share an application window, so there is some decent functionality. I don't know if that might vary with graphics stack, i.e. Intel vs NVIDIA and Wayland vs Xorg...