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279 points arkadiyt | 6 comments | 22 Mar 20 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.934s | source | bottom
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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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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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1. 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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2. tjpnz ◴[23 Mar 20 04:15 UTC] No.22661213[source]▶
It's like we're back in the 90s again.
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3. X6S1x6Okd1st ◴[23 Mar 20 05:17 UTC] No.22661442[source]▶
Except now the webapp is real time video and voice chat
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4. RMPR ◴[23 Mar 20 06:31 UTC] No.22661727[source]▶
Chromium should work too, no?
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5. komeijist ◴[23 Mar 20 15:05 UTC] No.22664775{3}[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.
6. saltcured ◴[23 Mar 20 22:30 UTC] No.22669491[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...