Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux (github.com)

README looks AI-generated, I wonder how much of the entire project was made the same way.

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...

I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.

Why would you do this? What purpose does this serve other than to create additional misery and suffering in this world?

I’ve used the teams client in Ubuntu for years. It’s a pain when multitasking (text chat with another group then try to find your wayback to the existing video conference) but functions well enough

My Teams is completely broken on MacOS. Yes I tried uninstalling and re-installing multiple times. Nothing works. So I've resorted to using the very laggy Teams web app.

What good has Microsoft done for the world other than digital pain and suffering?

I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?

Teams itself can barely keep up with its own features, I wonder how an unofficial client would.

Also, what's driving the need? I've taken a peek under the hood, it's just an electron app. It's not closed source (not opensource either, due to licensing) as far as I could tell aside from libraries that aren't part of it's app logic (graphics,audio,etc..). And there are webhooks for bot authoring.

I'm just scared it would have issues integrating with onedrive or some other MS app at the worst moment.

I've been using this for a long time and it works better than the official client (which I use on another computer) because it has less bugs.

For example the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to (has to do with the first click being ignored while Teams it's out of focus, and the second click being interpreted as a double click). The unofficial Teams for Linux doesn't have this problem.

Hmm. A bit of weird anecdata; I'm a faculty point of contact for tech issues at my very (but not overly) microsofty university and also a very longtime Linux user.

But I seem to have a better time of things in this realm than MANY of my Windows/Mac colleagues re Outlook, Teams, etc precisely because I'm always relegated to the Web/PWA stuff. They often literally seem to have more issues than me.

Must be nice to be Teams' product manager and see this. /s

I use this a lot and it works well.

Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia. However, I love my Debian+ i3 too much to give it up. Using it through chrome is not easy especially to chat. So, I install it as appomage through appman and it works beautifully well that I can automatically update as well.

Installed this under Pop!_OS on the new System76 laptop and it seems to be working fine.

If I have to use Teams, at least its not under 'Doze.

I recently had a desire to enable PiP and video controls in teams.

I was able to contribute it to this project which was a genuinely good and smooth process.

If you start the app with '--videoMenu' new menu options to enable/control this appear.

Please make an unofficial client for windows too. The official one sucks so much it is hard to even describe.

The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else.

Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.

The Teams works well as a PWA on Ubuntu, everything works meeting ings chats etc etc.

I’ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job - chats work, calls work, presentations work, screen sharing works. or should I say mostly work… sure, it’s as glitchy as it ever was and may fail for any reason at any time, but you don’t really need an app to experience all that

Please don't, now I can no longer say that I cannot use teams. If you want to use it so bad, go back to Windows...

Just use the Web interface, it is the same anyway.

Microsoft Edge for Linux + Teams installed as an app (PWA) works perfectly fine for all our devs, anything else like this is just an additional security risk.

Native applications are a scourge, if only from a security standpoint.

I have tried and failed to use the Mac Teams app repeatedly. I will try to join a meeting I’ve been invited to, but there is some conflict between my personal and word Microsoft accounts that causes it to flip out. Only the web app reliably lets me actually join a meeting.