Microsoft Teams

“Teams has the clear lower barrier to entry, let alone document sharing that's integrated into Word and Excel via SharePoint.”

“my coworkers are always complaining about how much trouble they have with it, not being able to copy and paste into chats, freezes, crashes”

“Which actually caused quite a bit of problems with Teams original because it REALLY expects you to use exchange”

“Outlook, Teams, and other all show up as msedgewebview2.exe, so you also don't know which app is consuming gigs of memory doing nothing.”

“reinvented toast notifications in yet another parallel duplicate feature with Teams toasts that spawn back to back to block critical button clicks”

“Even Microsoft's own programs (Office 365, Teams) are running faster and have better UX on macOS than on Windows.”

“They do still have MS Teams calls where the first 20 minutes are trying to fix half the people having issues joining or hearing things.”

“where after a network interruption the audio is sometimes played back really fast until the point that it becomes real-time again”

“The most painful thing I can think of with Teams in years of Linux use has been I can’t upload more than 10 things at once”

“They at least do have a message indicating which key combo inputs a new line, but it still gets me on occasion.”

“using M365 connected tools - Outlook,claendar, teams, sharepoint, copilot etc just work very well together for me”

“Teams is not that bad if you are using Office and OneDrive anyway, as it integrates well with those.”

“It's probably not that bad if you ONLY use it for video calls and you've never used Slack before.”

“it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls”

“For Teams, as long as you use it for conferencing and chat (no file sharing or editing), you can replace it with Slack”

“As a piece of software for voice chats it's okay but as piece of software for text chats it is absolutely atrocious”

“Like everything Microsoft it was shit for the first few years, they slowly sorted it out, and now it's fine.”

“By all accounts it was unremarkable to the end users, and when WFH mandates started it was seamless.”

“Teams suffers from one giant problem. There is a totally odd, but understandable from tech debt perspective, segregation between “chats” and “teams””

“everything else is web-based/has a PWA (like Teams, Outlook, Office etc), which works fine in Linux”

“If we can take a computer as powerful as today's laptops and make it crawl because of the amount of inefficiencies in software like Teams”

“You never have to worry about, for example, losing access to all previous messages in your Teams channels if you get a new phone.”

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

“The number of times I've heard the notification sound, gotten a toast while in the middle of something, and then been unable to find what the hell that notification was for”

“At least in MS Teams I can isolate it into its separate ungoogled Chromium installation and treat that as a shitty app”

“if your Windows computer doesn't have a valid HEVC license installed, then Teams falls back to software encoding and performs horrible”

“The tracking is still gross, but limited to opt-in on office WiFi seems a lot less dramatic of a headline”

“It is a resource hog, handles navigation poorly, has poor default settings, finding installed apps can be tough”

“I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues.”

“Slack competitors like Teams, Zulip, and Mattermost all offer easy ability to integrate with anything that can make a web request.”

“MS Teams might have its issues but it has most, if not all, of the Enterprise features you need from a video conferencing suite.”

“Their Power suite, Teams and the existing integrations make it cost effective even with the increases.”

“I used Teams since released, never have those problems unless on a bad network. Use it several hours a day.”

“The only thing that does not work for me with Teams as chromium 'app' is the screen sharing (on Wayland).”

“It works in general, though for some reason Teams via a web browser will often have problems seeing the microphone, or getting sound”

“it always stayed at 100% CPU”

“It’s a pain when multitasking (text chat with another group then try to find your wayback to the existing video conference)”

“I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues.”

“Live captioning and transcription in Teams/Zoom is really useful when you you miss something and need to go back.”

“the AI-optimized audio codec is the only video call audio that doesn't cause some people's voices to become physically painful to listen to”