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Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

285 points by basemi 11mo ago

okayjustonemore 10mo ago
Teams is one of those apps that I wish would just leave the realm of the living and never come back in any shape or form. Terrible, terrible app. Peak Microsoft lazy design.
neilv 10mo ago
Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.
- loloquwowndueo 10mo ago
  Fine in b2b settings but in some b2c cases (particularly when the “b” side is some municipal or governmental entity - those LOVE Microsoft products) it’s kind of hard to get options.
- stuaxo 10mo ago
  This sounds wonderful, many of us just need to work somewhere and other things are more important than some of their unfortunate software choices.
- denimnerd42 10mo ago
  I've never used teams, what's bad about it? my newco is moving from webex to teams for video but keeping slack. I'm a bit worried keeping slack is a short term thing.
  - Mashimo 10mo ago
    The only complaints I have is that is slightly sluggish.
  - crims0n 10mo ago
    It is a worse slack client chock-full of Microsoft bloat. My company tried to move to it after getting an E5 license and the entire technology org screamed bloody murder until they reversed course. IMHO… Slack and Zoom are the best combo. Zoom being necessary because for some reason Slack just cannot handle meetings well.
  - perching_aix 10mo ago
    I can list off a few issues, but as usual, who and how many will share these experiences is a complete toss-up: - random chunks of chat log can go temporarily missing at random when you scroll up. temporarily as in, they'll load on another device. on the regular one though, who knows when you'll get them back... - if you manage to call someone the same time they do you, all bets are off. got things softlocked more than a few times. - the usual recent Microsoft obsession with (keyboard-focus hijacking!) popups is of course also a thing in Teams - text styling is hell, and sometimes when you click on the copy button in code blocks or copy out stuff in general, you get html tags polluting your copied data - chats & group chats vs. team chats is extremely unnecessary and cumbersome - multitenant support does a complete ui reload after which you miss notifications from the tenant you switched away from (might be different now) - the localization is funky, just like in all other Microsoft products; from the small, like calendars starting on the wrong day, to the bigger, where if you ping @everyone in your Teams set to your native locale, then on the other side people will also see the ping in your native locale. It's just like Exchange/Outlook in this regard. - the audio settings like getting mixed up, especially if you happen to disconnect and reconnect your stuff on the regular. - they seemingly hardcode the URL preview thumbnail logic per trusted site, instead of using opengraph. their hardcoded integrations are also ignorant of e.g. url encoding and have other minor blemishes. I dare you to link the C++ wikipedia article to someone. - profile pics go away sometimes (mine has been missing for weeks now, appears everywhere else), and statuses can get stuck or be null These are all ongoing things that persist after years of use. Other, more questionable, already solved, or rare / one-off qualms would include: - one time I tried screensharing, and when I clicked the button it showed me an emoji picker flyout instead of a share options flyout (lol) - used to crash all the time in Edge of all things (not sure about other browsers), fixed since - screenshare can freeze without you knowing any better thanks to the often extremely low framerate. - slow (might be my terrible workstation) - happily lies about delivery status and reorders messages
    - fragmede 10mo ago
      Today, Teams decided to update itself during a video call. It started acting wonky during the call until I force quit it, and then when I restarted it, it had a whole update procedure that I had to wait for. Meanwhile, I just used slack's video call thing. Luckily, my meeting was easily moved over.
  - usr1106 10mo ago
    I only use the PWA. Typing is not keyboard friendly, you need to use the mouse for formatting. Some keyboard shortcuts exist, but some don't work if you don't have an English keyboard. It cannot keep track of what messages you have read, often you need to read the same messages twice. The set of emojis is limited (could be deemed a childish problem, but with 100% remote team emojis are important to have some fun). The layout of threads sucks, sometimes you have only a small side panel to work with. When you want to delete old notifications, it sometimes just says "Cannot delete". It't the worst application I have to use at work. As soon as I have the possibility I will join a company again hat uses Zulip. Unfortunately those are rare.
- tom_ 10mo ago
  The last couple of places I worked at used Teams, as did a number of the clients. We never found anything much better for the video calling aspect, and my understanding is that Teams comes for free with all the other Microsoft Shit - so you may as well. I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on. (I do remember it taking a long time to load, and apparently using a surprising amount of memory once it was finally done, but aside from providing reliable fodder for water cooler conversations with other 40+ year old colleagues this never actually seemed to cause a problem in practice. At my last Teams-using job I would restart my PC no more than once or twice a week, something I could let happen in parallel with making the cup of tea that I'd always be making at some point anyway. And it had 64 GB RAM, which isn't even a lot by today's standards, but still Teams didn't actually fill all of it.)
  - skeeter2020 10mo ago
    Zoom, Slack and Google Meet all work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls. Teams freezes up, consume ALL your resources, going from one call to another and it just stops working. The only thing I've used that's worse is Chime. >> I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on. This is an example of how bad it is: you had to have the chat UX explained to you. Combined with MS cramming as much crap into teams as possible and trying to tie you to their other products with integrations that barely or rarely work - and the AI features are terrible (and yet another MS AI offering called Copilot?). It really is that bad and I'm glad I no longer have to use it.
    - discordance 10mo ago
      I keep hearing this on HN, but I never run into these issues with Teams. Video calling is fine and chat is ok. We generally just use chats instead of channels as that just seems like an unnecessary abstraction.
      - maxerickson 10mo ago
- fooqux 10mo ago
  The way the job market is right now, I wouldn't flee a company running MS-DOS.
- beoberha 10mo ago
  I’m incredibly biased (I work at Microsoft) but I love Teams. It’s a great meeting app and a great chat app. It blows my mind that there are companies that have totally separate apps for each (Zoom/Slack).
  - darthcircuit 10mo ago
    It’s more incredible to me that Microsoft has different versions of teams that don’t work with each other, but are named the same thing, and that the home version of teams that doesn’t work with enterprise teams comes forcibly bundled with an pro or enterprise os.
    - roygbiv2 10mo ago
      It's so fucking bizarre that there are multiple versions of the same thing, that are called the same thing but aren't the same thing!
  - ocdtrekkie 10mo ago
    Teams is the only meeting app where I am usually late because it doesn't just let me join my meeting. Zoom will never lock up letting you join a meeting because someone decided you need to reauthenticate Teams regularly. This would be understandable if it happened quickly but normally Teams has a seizure for a minute or two when you try to join the call and then you get told to sign in. Whoever allowed this behavior to ship should be fired out a cannon... when I click join a call, absolutely nothing should stop me from joining a call. In fairness this might not be explicitly Teams' fault. It's built on top of a terrible authentication platform which also seems to be down at least four or five days a year. 365 is one of those things that could not exist if not for the incredible monopoly Microsoft has over Excel.
  - adzm 10mo ago
    It's gotten so much better recently, and I used to be a Teams hater.
- 65 10mo ago
  I would prefer to have a job that pays me money than to not have to use Teams.
ranger_danger 10mo ago
README looks AI-generated, I wonder how much of the entire project was made the same way.
- aclindsa 10mo ago
  I didn't dig too deeply, but saw a commit message written by Claude
- worble 10mo ago
  The CLAUDE.md is a bigger giveaway
- wizzledonker 10mo ago
  After a cursory glance at commit messages, looks like most of it. Like all AI co-authored code it’s a matter of time before this becomes unmaintainable and abandoned.
  - mrweasel 10mo ago
    I'm deeply fascinated that people can make this work at all. Just yesterday I had a fight with an AI regarding some Python code, the stupid thing wouldn't admit it didn't know how to use something and just kept spitting out the same lines of broken code. Then here is someone writing an entire functional Teams client with Claude.
    - figmert 10mo ago
      Usually in those scenarios you stop and do the research yourself and correct it. You don't keep asking it. Also starting new conversations often help.
      - mrweasel 10mo ago
        If I'm doing the research and needs to correct the AI, if faster for just write the code myself. My experience is also that even if I can point to where the errors are, and explain the actual API, I frequently still get the same, broken, result anyway.
badthingfactory 10mo ago
I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.
- linuxdaemon 10mo ago
  I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links. I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lunch, or whatever. I use firefox for my main browser; and teams doesn't work great there. So I have to use Edge or Chrome. But then, when someone sends a link in Teams, it opens in that browser. This unofficial client acts like an actual standalone app and opens links in my default browser. Now if they sent a link that lands on some other office365 thing, there is about a 15% chance that just won't work ;) But yeah, if you are able to mostly avoid this POS, then those 2 things likely don't matter and PWA is fine.
  - vee-kay 10mo ago
    There's an open-source Chrome extension (also works for Chrome OS) to show Notification Badges for MS Teams PWA (Progressive Web Apps): https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges For notifications, the Administrator needs to enable the NotificationsAllowedForURLs policy, which automatically allows notifications for Teams on the web: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-progressive-web-apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-progr...
lousken 10mo ago
If only they fixed screen sharing on firefox in the official web version...
- lillesvin 10mo ago
  I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues. What issue(s) do you encounter?
  - calvinmorrison 10mo ago
    I have one thats purveying over apparently linux, mac, chrome, firefox... when you screenshare on multiple monitors (or workspaces) the screen stops updating.
  - SV_BubbleTime 10mo ago
    My screen share went from fine to low resolution all the time. Really annoying.
  - broadsidepicnic 10mo ago
    I tried just yesterday with latest firefox and fedora, screen sharing didn't work out of the box. Only screen sharing by creating a virtual display worked, not sharing the current screen nor tab.
  - lousken 10mo ago
    it doesn't work "Your video isn't working. We couldn't access your camera."
- tetris11 10mo ago
  works fine for me
- quasigod 10mo ago
  Pretty sure any screen sharing from a browser app would use the browsers screen capture api, which should just use your desktops screen sharing portal if on Wayland. Maybe make sure you have the desktop portal for your DE installed.
bigbuppo 10mo ago
Why would you do this? What purpose does this serve other than to create additional misery and suffering in this world?
- scblock 10mo ago
  Because your company is all in on teams but you prefer to use linux when possible. It gets the job done for chat and calls.
- jama211 10mo ago
  I’m sure if you think about it for more than 30 seconds you’ll figure it out
hdgvhicv 10mo ago
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
- le-mark 10mo ago
  I had this happen a few times with the official client on Ubuntu back in 2020 or so: My laptop cpu and fan would go crazy and after a while I ran out disk space. I found a .so in the teams install directory was several hundred gigabytes. So I’d delete teams and reinstall. Then it would happen again a few months later. I actually caught it in progress inflating the same .so. I ended up uninstalling it permanently, luckily the team I was in didn’t depend on it, it was mostly hr that required it. Appears they retired the linux version a while ago.
  - jacquesm 10mo ago
    What on earth was in that file?
    - ArnoVW 10mo ago
      My guess: an entire VM wrapped in a binary
      - jacquesm 10mo ago
        If so that could do absolutely anything.
mberning 10mo ago
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?
- loloquwowndueo 10mo ago
  Beeper mini.
- gerdesj 10mo ago
  Teams will always work in a browser, so make hay whilst the sun shines. Sadly bits fall off depending on which browser you use. Firefox seems to have fallen out of favour and can no longer share. Chromium efforts still seem to work OK. I have sometimes found that faking my browser agent helps with stability ... which is sad and possibly rather disingenuous. I must get around to spinning up a Jitsi jobbie. BBB should be my favourite but is a non starter due to elderly software in the stack. I need to take another look at all this stuff.
- SG- 10mo ago
  I mean that's like real life too right? you'll die eventually so might as well give up? or you might get hit by a car tomorrow too so yeah don't bother with anything. Also lets forget the fact that some people actually like coding or wanted a fun weekend project.
- EionRobb 10mo ago
  I enjoy the cat-and-mouse! I've been writing the Teams plugin for Pidgin for the past few years and its great to be able to give users the kind of features or privacy options that you'd never get from official clients, while learning lots of fun ways (ab)using web tech to solve problems. Like how in Teams, it does a "reverse webhook" to push presence notifications to a web client acting as a server over a websocket
- 7952 10mo ago
  No idea if it applies here. But many people outside of tech start crafty projects as a way of regaining some control from stress and pressure. Its fun, rewarding and something you can do in a sea of things you can't.
65 10mo ago
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?
- tomrod 10mo ago
  Clear the teams cache, it can persist after uninstall.
- ohm 10mo ago
  Use this app to uninstall it https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ it should remove all traces of the app from computer
  - 65 10mo ago
    I should complain on Hacker News more often. That worked! Finally. Thank you!
- CoastalCoder 10mo ago
  > What good has Microsoft done for the world other than digital pain and suffering? Minesweeper was kinda fun.
  - SG- 10mo ago
    growing up as a Mac user in the 80s and 90s I always found it a really dumb game.
    - CoastalCoder 10mo ago
      I was damning with faint praise.
notepad0x90 10mo ago
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.
- nmstoker 10mo ago
  It's wrapping the web version of Teams, so presumably there are few of the issues you suggest because most of the functionality comes from the page and it's just changes that impact the smaller number of Linux integrations that need attention.
mastazi 10mo ago
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.
- happymellon 10mo ago
  I encounter this on Mac most days as well. Teams is the pinnacle of bad Microsoft design forced on to everyone, even if they don't use Windows. > But, but, but, what features is it missing? Is always the response from Microsoft apologists. Why do I have to have different ways of calling depending on whether its a group or a chat? And chat calls don't alert the other person that you are even calling them? What a pile of shit. I know Slack also introduced shit huddles, because why not break something that already works, but that doesn't mean you have to copy them. It's not always missing features, its that the UI is a series of papercuts.
jrm4 10mo ago
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.
- DANmode 10mo ago
  The Web never goes out of style!
scblock 10mo ago
I use this a lot and it works well.
gtirloni 10mo ago
Must be nice to be Teams' product manager and see this. /s
- DANmode 10mo ago
  You think their boss reads HN?!
- rand17 10mo ago
  Copilot has neither eyes, nor feelings.
- self_awareness 10mo ago
  You wrongly assume that they care.
wanderingmind 10mo ago
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.
smitty1e 10mo ago
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.
dominiwe 10mo ago
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.
- mrintegrity 10mo ago
  You can also try this user script which I am using in Firefox https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/552472-allow-pip-in-teams-meetings https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/552472-allow-pip-in-teams-... It works great
hosteur 10mo ago
Please make an unofficial client for windows too. The official one sucks so much it is hard to even describe.
- alentred 10mo ago
  Haha, do you mean unofficial Teams client, or an unofficial UI for Windows itself? The latter is an interesting idea.
- jacquesm 10mo ago
  It's effectively malware.
- jonathanlydall 10mo ago
  I use Teams on Windows extensively at work (for chats, calls, meetings, screen sharing). And I have zero issues with it. It’s been really solid for me since that major overhaul they did a couple of years back. Not sure what issues you have, but I wonder if perhaps that us NOT running 3rd party security products is a factor (we only run Windows Defender).
  - rf15 10mo ago
    I'm at the absolute opposite end: Teams was Good Enough when it launched, but declined ever since: you can no longer fullscreen screen share, fat empty margins everywhere in the UI and it nags you about addons and AI stuff.
  - varispeed 10mo ago
    "Works for me, so it must for everyone else"
    - jonathanlydall 10mo ago
      Who are you quoting? If you want to paraphrase my reply it would be more like: “It works for some people, it doesn’t work for some people, what might be different between those groups of people?”
jacquesm 10mo ago
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.
- Yumako 10mo ago
  Some of my coworkers connect every day to our calls with Linux machines.
  - jacquesm 10mo ago
    Yes, so? Some people win the lottery every month. But I don't play the lottery, so I can't win. But I also don't lose.
    - Yumako 10mo ago
      [dead]
  - Tor3 10mo ago
    They almost certainly do via the web interface, as I do (and lots of others). It works in general, though for some reason Teams via a web browser will often have problems seeing the microphone, or getting sound, even though every other web page using mic/speaker will work. And some other issues, like not showing a shared screen without first going to chats and then re-expanding the shared screen. When aware of all this it generally works ok. The actual MS client for Linux is, as far as I know, non-existing now. Or at least not updated. It was anyway always completely useless for several reasons, in particular that it always stayed at 100% CPU.
    - ahartmetz 10mo ago
      My Teams client for Linux is MS Edge for Linux with the web app, works pretty well except for slow navigation. File uploads, audio and video all work. Even screen and window sharing on Wayland. The desktop is KDE, so it provides the XDG portals and the compositor. Pipewire does audio and maybe video routing.
Neil44 10mo ago
The Teams works well as a PWA on Ubuntu, everything works meeting ings chats etc etc.
0ld 10mo ago
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
LouDNL 10mo ago
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...
- skrebbel 10mo ago
  You can, but now you have to be honest about why.
- microflash 10mo ago
  You can still dodge the bullet by saying this is an “unofficial” client using which may violate an unknown amount of compliance bullet points.
- magguzu 10mo ago
  Man I hate Teams with a passion but if someone on my team said this I'd know they were full of it. I use Linux and the PWA is functional enough.
pjmlp 10mo ago
Just use the Web interface, it is the same anyway.
crimsonnoodle58 10mo ago
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.
ris 10mo ago
Native applications are a scourge, if only from a security standpoint.
jxdxbx 10mo ago
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.
ta12653421 10mo ago
does it allow to disable(!) incoming(!) video completely?
Xss3 10mo ago
My biggest gripe with teams is their markdown formatting. It works if you type it out character by character, but paste some Markdown in and it does nothing.
self_awareness 10mo ago
Teams is good with video calls, but so was Skype, which was apparently used as the video backend system. Rest of Teams? Abysmal. Logging to text files? Missing. Search? Broken. Speed? Sometimes the UI jumps around and I click the wrong things, because UI hasn't been loaded by the time I'm trying to click something. Formatting? Sometimes it's impossible, and I need to edit the message after sending, to be able to properly format it. If you don't have problems with Teams, you're simply not using them enough.
Havoc 10mo ago
Let me guess it runs on a potato unlike the official one...
jll29 10mo ago
Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber). And it's by no means restricted to Microsoft: many companies use unclear interfaces with non-existant discoverability, sluggish response times, and cryptic menu names like "..." or "+"; and nobody neads multi-row menus at the top to compete for attention with left-side column menus, each of which featuring symbols that lack clarity - since when is one pane of icons not enough?
- dangus 10mo ago
  I use Linux because I find that it has more capability than commercial operating systems for my needs. I do count “running commercial software” as a need of mine. I would not be using Linux if I couldn’t run Windows games on Steam, 1Password, Slack, Discord, etc. Nobody’s forcing you to install Teams, and someone out there is breathing a sigh of relief because they have another option besides Mac and Windows for running the programs they need to run. I’m not really in a race to be the most opinionated user on the planet who refuses to use an app with a … or + menu, I just want a good OS that runs any program I might need.
- surajrmal 10mo ago
  Because you work for a company that uses Microsoft teams most likely. It's not always a choice you get to make.
- ukd1 10mo ago
  Some customers (e.g. DoD, gov) basically exclusively use it, so you'd have to if you ever interacted with them. This is a win.
- osigurdson 10mo ago
  >> Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? Well, I use Teams on Linux sometimes because I have a meeting and using a Linux machine at the time.
IanTerzo 10mo ago
I'm actually making an alternative client since I couldn't stand the normal one. https://github.com/IanTerzo/Squads https://github.com/IanTerzo/Squads
krauses 10mo ago
Would this make it easier to consume and store Teams data locally, avoiding the need for tagging M365 Graph API, if the goal is to build analytics or automation on top of Teams for things my personal account has access to?
- junto 10mo ago
  Depending on how locked down your Entra / AD is, you can login to Graph Explorer: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer Then you can execute the: GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf This will return you all the Entra Groups you are in, this includes the Microsoft Teams groups as well.
jjtheblunt 10mo ago
For Linux made me instantly remember the phrase "you can run, but you can not hide".
JaggerJo 10mo ago
Nice! A screenshot in the readme would be a great addition. I was looking for a native macOS Teams client a while ago - but to my knowledge this is the first 3rd party Teams client. The Microsoft Teams client frustrates me daily.
baby 10mo ago
Why not use the webapp?
dustymcp 10mo ago
I use it, it has its quirks but surprisingly its buggy and faster than the official one..
worldsavior 10mo ago
Looks cool but some pictures would help.
nottorp 10mo ago
It’s not a client but a wrapped web site though.
lovegrenoble 10mo ago
It's better to avoid Teams if possible
jeena 10mo ago
The Linux client is terrible. But that is why I for work stuff use Chromium and I didn't really have issues with it. The things in this list: System notifications - works with Chromium System tray integration (badge support varies by desktop environment) - I don't have a system tray on Hyprland with waybar Custom backgrounds & themes - ok, I never needed it but that is probably the only thing which is not working in Chromium Screen sharing support - Always worked, as long as you allow it Multiple account profiles - I'm doing that with different Chromium profiles, but yeah it kind of would be nice if it was possible in one window, so that seems also cool But for those two features it seems it's more hassle to deal with a unofficial version.
pelagicAustral 10mo ago
I can't be the only person that noticed this, but the Teams client for Linux never times you out, or never shows you as away, even when the pc is idle for hours on end...
wildredkraut 10mo ago
Well, Teams does the job(listen to bigger events and waste productivity with chit chat)
more_corn 10mo ago
God no

285 points by basemi 11mo ago

Teams is one of those apps that I wish would just leave the realm of the living and never come back in any shape or form. Terrible, terrible app. Peak Microsoft lazy design.

neilv 10mo ago

Alternative solution: Flee any company that uses Microsoft Teams.

loloquwowndueo 10mo ago
Fine in b2b settings but in some b2c cases (particularly when the “b” side is some municipal or governmental entity - those LOVE Microsoft products) it’s kind of hard to get options.
stuaxo 10mo ago
This sounds wonderful, many of us just need to work somewhere and other things are more important than some of their unfortunate software choices.
denimnerd42 10mo ago
I've never used teams, what's bad about it? my newco is moving from webex to teams for video but keeping slack. I'm a bit worried keeping slack is a short term thing.
- Mashimo 10mo ago
  The only complaints I have is that is slightly sluggish.
- crims0n 10mo ago
  It is a worse slack client chock-full of Microsoft bloat. My company tried to move to it after getting an E5 license and the entire technology org screamed bloody murder until they reversed course. IMHO… Slack and Zoom are the best combo. Zoom being necessary because for some reason Slack just cannot handle meetings well.
- perching_aix 10mo ago
  I can list off a few issues, but as usual, who and how many will share these experiences is a complete toss-up: - random chunks of chat log can go temporarily missing at random when you scroll up. temporarily as in, they'll load on another device. on the regular one though, who knows when you'll get them back... - if you manage to call someone the same time they do you, all bets are off. got things softlocked more than a few times. - the usual recent Microsoft obsession with (keyboard-focus hijacking!) popups is of course also a thing in Teams - text styling is hell, and sometimes when you click on the copy button in code blocks or copy out stuff in general, you get html tags polluting your copied data - chats & group chats vs. team chats is extremely unnecessary and cumbersome - multitenant support does a complete ui reload after which you miss notifications from the tenant you switched away from (might be different now) - the localization is funky, just like in all other Microsoft products; from the small, like calendars starting on the wrong day, to the bigger, where if you ping @everyone in your Teams set to your native locale, then on the other side people will also see the ping in your native locale. It's just like Exchange/Outlook in this regard. - the audio settings like getting mixed up, especially if you happen to disconnect and reconnect your stuff on the regular. - they seemingly hardcode the URL preview thumbnail logic per trusted site, instead of using opengraph. their hardcoded integrations are also ignorant of e.g. url encoding and have other minor blemishes. I dare you to link the C++ wikipedia article to someone. - profile pics go away sometimes (mine has been missing for weeks now, appears everywhere else), and statuses can get stuck or be null These are all ongoing things that persist after years of use. Other, more questionable, already solved, or rare / one-off qualms would include: - one time I tried screensharing, and when I clicked the button it showed me an emoji picker flyout instead of a share options flyout (lol) - used to crash all the time in Edge of all things (not sure about other browsers), fixed since - screenshare can freeze without you knowing any better thanks to the often extremely low framerate. - slow (might be my terrible workstation) - happily lies about delivery status and reorders messages
  - fragmede 10mo ago
    Today, Teams decided to update itself during a video call. It started acting wonky during the call until I force quit it, and then when I restarted it, it had a whole update procedure that I had to wait for. Meanwhile, I just used slack's video call thing. Luckily, my meeting was easily moved over.
- usr1106 10mo ago
  I only use the PWA. Typing is not keyboard friendly, you need to use the mouse for formatting. Some keyboard shortcuts exist, but some don't work if you don't have an English keyboard. It cannot keep track of what messages you have read, often you need to read the same messages twice. The set of emojis is limited (could be deemed a childish problem, but with 100% remote team emojis are important to have some fun). The layout of threads sucks, sometimes you have only a small side panel to work with. When you want to delete old notifications, it sometimes just says "Cannot delete". It't the worst application I have to use at work. As soon as I have the possibility I will join a company again hat uses Zulip. Unfortunately those are rare.
tom_ 10mo ago
The last couple of places I worked at used Teams, as did a number of the clients. We never found anything much better for the video calling aspect, and my understanding is that Teams comes for free with all the other Microsoft Shit - so you may as well. I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on. (I do remember it taking a long time to load, and apparently using a surprising amount of memory once it was finally done, but aside from providing reliable fodder for water cooler conversations with other 40+ year old colleagues this never actually seemed to cause a problem in practice. At my last Teams-using job I would restart my PC no more than once or twice a week, something I could let happen in parallel with making the cup of tea that I'd always be making at some point anyway. And it had 64 GB RAM, which isn't even a lot by today's standards, but still Teams didn't actually fill all of it.)
- skeeter2020 10mo ago
  Zoom, Slack and Google Meet all work as well or better than Teams for it's primary purpose: video calls. Teams freezes up, consume ALL your resources, going from one call to another and it just stops working. The only thing I've used that's worse is Chime. >> I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on. This is an example of how bad it is: you had to have the chat UX explained to you. Combined with MS cramming as much crap into teams as possible and trying to tie you to their other products with integrations that barely or rarely work - and the AI features are terrible (and yet another MS AI offering called Copilot?). It really is that bad and I'm glad I no longer have to use it.
  - discordance 10mo ago
    I keep hearing this on HN, but I never run into these issues with Teams. Video calling is fine and chat is ok. We generally just use chats instead of channels as that just seems like an unnecessary abstraction.
    - maxerickson 10mo ago
fooqux 10mo ago
The way the job market is right now, I wouldn't flee a company running MS-DOS.
beoberha 10mo ago
I’m incredibly biased (I work at Microsoft) but I love Teams. It’s a great meeting app and a great chat app. It blows my mind that there are companies that have totally separate apps for each (Zoom/Slack).
- darthcircuit 10mo ago
  It’s more incredible to me that Microsoft has different versions of teams that don’t work with each other, but are named the same thing, and that the home version of teams that doesn’t work with enterprise teams comes forcibly bundled with an pro or enterprise os.
  - roygbiv2 10mo ago
    It's so fucking bizarre that there are multiple versions of the same thing, that are called the same thing but aren't the same thing!
- ocdtrekkie 10mo ago
  Teams is the only meeting app where I am usually late because it doesn't just let me join my meeting. Zoom will never lock up letting you join a meeting because someone decided you need to reauthenticate Teams regularly. This would be understandable if it happened quickly but normally Teams has a seizure for a minute or two when you try to join the call and then you get told to sign in. Whoever allowed this behavior to ship should be fired out a cannon... when I click join a call, absolutely nothing should stop me from joining a call. In fairness this might not be explicitly Teams' fault. It's built on top of a terrible authentication platform which also seems to be down at least four or five days a year. 365 is one of those things that could not exist if not for the incredible monopoly Microsoft has over Excel.
- adzm 10mo ago
  It's gotten so much better recently, and I used to be a Teams hater.
65 10mo ago
I would prefer to have a job that pays me money than to not have to use Teams.

ranger_danger 10mo ago

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

aclindsa 10mo ago
I didn't dig too deeply, but saw a commit message written by Claude
worble 10mo ago
The CLAUDE.md is a bigger giveaway
wizzledonker 10mo ago
After a cursory glance at commit messages, looks like most of it. Like all AI co-authored code it’s a matter of time before this becomes unmaintainable and abandoned.
- mrweasel 10mo ago
  I'm deeply fascinated that people can make this work at all. Just yesterday I had a fight with an AI regarding some Python code, the stupid thing wouldn't admit it didn't know how to use something and just kept spitting out the same lines of broken code. Then here is someone writing an entire functional Teams client with Claude.
  - figmert 10mo ago
    Usually in those scenarios you stop and do the research yourself and correct it. You don't keep asking it. Also starting new conversations often help.
    - mrweasel 10mo ago
      If I'm doing the research and needs to correct the AI, if faster for just write the code myself. My experience is also that even if I can point to where the errors are, and explain the actual API, I frequently still get the same, broken, result anyway.

badthingfactory 10mo ago

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

linuxdaemon 10mo ago
I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links. I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lunch, or whatever. I use firefox for my main browser; and teams doesn't work great there. So I have to use Edge or Chrome. But then, when someone sends a link in Teams, it opens in that browser. This unofficial client acts like an actual standalone app and opens links in my default browser. Now if they sent a link that lands on some other office365 thing, there is about a 15% chance that just won't work ;) But yeah, if you are able to mostly avoid this POS, then those 2 things likely don't matter and PWA is fine.
- vee-kay 10mo ago
  There's an open-source Chrome extension (also works for Chrome OS) to show Notification Badges for MS Teams PWA (Progressive Web Apps): https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges For notifications, the Administrator needs to enable the NotificationsAllowedForURLs policy, which automatically allows notifications for Teams on the web: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-progressive-web-apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-progr...

lousken 10mo ago

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

lillesvin 10mo ago
I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues. What issue(s) do you encounter?
- calvinmorrison 10mo ago
  I have one thats purveying over apparently linux, mac, chrome, firefox... when you screenshare on multiple monitors (or workspaces) the screen stops updating.
- SV_BubbleTime 10mo ago
  My screen share went from fine to low resolution all the time. Really annoying.
- broadsidepicnic 10mo ago
  I tried just yesterday with latest firefox and fedora, screen sharing didn't work out of the box. Only screen sharing by creating a virtual display worked, not sharing the current screen nor tab.
- lousken 10mo ago
  it doesn't work "Your video isn't working. We couldn't access your camera."
tetris11 10mo ago
works fine for me
quasigod 10mo ago
Pretty sure any screen sharing from a browser app would use the browsers screen capture api, which should just use your desktops screen sharing portal if on Wayland. Maybe make sure you have the desktop portal for your DE installed.

bigbuppo 10mo ago

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

scblock 10mo ago
Because your company is all in on teams but you prefer to use linux when possible. It gets the job done for chat and calls.
jama211 10mo ago
I’m sure if you think about it for more than 30 seconds you’ll figure it out

hdgvhicv 10mo ago

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

le-mark 10mo ago
I had this happen a few times with the official client on Ubuntu back in 2020 or so: My laptop cpu and fan would go crazy and after a while I ran out disk space. I found a .so in the teams install directory was several hundred gigabytes. So I’d delete teams and reinstall. Then it would happen again a few months later. I actually caught it in progress inflating the same .so. I ended up uninstalling it permanently, luckily the team I was in didn’t depend on it, it was mostly hr that required it. Appears they retired the linux version a while ago.
- jacquesm 10mo ago
  What on earth was in that file?
  - ArnoVW 10mo ago
    My guess: an entire VM wrapped in a binary
    - jacquesm 10mo ago
      If so that could do absolutely anything.

mberning 10mo ago

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?

loloquwowndueo 10mo ago
Beeper mini.
gerdesj 10mo ago
Teams will always work in a browser, so make hay whilst the sun shines. Sadly bits fall off depending on which browser you use. Firefox seems to have fallen out of favour and can no longer share. Chromium efforts still seem to work OK. I have sometimes found that faking my browser agent helps with stability ... which is sad and possibly rather disingenuous. I must get around to spinning up a Jitsi jobbie. BBB should be my favourite but is a non starter due to elderly software in the stack. I need to take another look at all this stuff.
SG- 10mo ago
I mean that's like real life too right? you'll die eventually so might as well give up? or you might get hit by a car tomorrow too so yeah don't bother with anything. Also lets forget the fact that some people actually like coding or wanted a fun weekend project.
EionRobb 10mo ago
I enjoy the cat-and-mouse! I've been writing the Teams plugin for Pidgin for the past few years and its great to be able to give users the kind of features or privacy options that you'd never get from official clients, while learning lots of fun ways (ab)using web tech to solve problems. Like how in Teams, it does a "reverse webhook" to push presence notifications to a web client acting as a server over a websocket
7952 10mo ago
No idea if it applies here. But many people outside of tech start crafty projects as a way of regaining some control from stress and pressure. Its fun, rewarding and something you can do in a sea of things you can't.

65 10mo ago

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?

tomrod 10mo ago
Clear the teams cache, it can persist after uninstall.
ohm 10mo ago
Use this app to uninstall it https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ it should remove all traces of the app from computer
- 65 10mo ago
  I should complain on Hacker News more often. That worked! Finally. Thank you!
CoastalCoder 10mo ago
> What good has Microsoft done for the world other than digital pain and suffering? Minesweeper was kinda fun.
- SG- 10mo ago
  growing up as a Mac user in the 80s and 90s I always found it a really dumb game.
  - CoastalCoder 10mo ago
    I was damning with faint praise.

notepad0x90 10mo ago

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.

nmstoker 10mo ago
It's wrapping the web version of Teams, so presumably there are few of the issues you suggest because most of the functionality comes from the page and it's just changes that impact the smaller number of Linux integrations that need attention.

mastazi 10mo ago

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.

happymellon 10mo ago
I encounter this on Mac most days as well. Teams is the pinnacle of bad Microsoft design forced on to everyone, even if they don't use Windows. > But, but, but, what features is it missing? Is always the response from Microsoft apologists. Why do I have to have different ways of calling depending on whether its a group or a chat? And chat calls don't alert the other person that you are even calling them? What a pile of shit. I know Slack also introduced shit huddles, because why not break something that already works, but that doesn't mean you have to copy them. It's not always missing features, its that the UI is a series of papercuts.

jrm4 10mo ago

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.

DANmode 10mo ago
The Web never goes out of style!

scblock 10mo ago

I use this a lot and it works well.

gtirloni 10mo ago

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

DANmode 10mo ago
You think their boss reads HN?!
rand17 10mo ago
Copilot has neither eyes, nor feelings.
self_awareness 10mo ago
You wrongly assume that they care.

wanderingmind 10mo ago

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.

smitty1e 10mo ago

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.

dominiwe 10mo ago

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.

mrintegrity 10mo ago
You can also try this user script which I am using in Firefox https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/552472-allow-pip-in-teams-meetings https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/552472-allow-pip-in-teams-... It works great

hosteur 10mo ago

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

alentred 10mo ago
Haha, do you mean unofficial Teams client, or an unofficial UI for Windows itself? The latter is an interesting idea.
jacquesm 10mo ago
It's effectively malware.
jonathanlydall 10mo ago
I use Teams on Windows extensively at work (for chats, calls, meetings, screen sharing). And I have zero issues with it. It’s been really solid for me since that major overhaul they did a couple of years back. Not sure what issues you have, but I wonder if perhaps that us NOT running 3rd party security products is a factor (we only run Windows Defender).
- rf15 10mo ago
  I'm at the absolute opposite end: Teams was Good Enough when it launched, but declined ever since: you can no longer fullscreen screen share, fat empty margins everywhere in the UI and it nags you about addons and AI stuff.
- varispeed 10mo ago
  "Works for me, so it must for everyone else"
  - jonathanlydall 10mo ago
    Who are you quoting? If you want to paraphrase my reply it would be more like: “It works for some people, it doesn’t work for some people, what might be different between those groups of people?”

jacquesm 10mo ago

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.

Yumako 10mo ago
Some of my coworkers connect every day to our calls with Linux machines.
- jacquesm 10mo ago
  Yes, so? Some people win the lottery every month. But I don't play the lottery, so I can't win. But I also don't lose.
  - Yumako 10mo ago
    [dead]
- Tor3 10mo ago
  They almost certainly do via the web interface, as I do (and lots of others). It works in general, though for some reason Teams via a web browser will often have problems seeing the microphone, or getting sound, even though every other web page using mic/speaker will work. And some other issues, like not showing a shared screen without first going to chats and then re-expanding the shared screen. When aware of all this it generally works ok. The actual MS client for Linux is, as far as I know, non-existing now. Or at least not updated. It was anyway always completely useless for several reasons, in particular that it always stayed at 100% CPU.
  - ahartmetz 10mo ago
    My Teams client for Linux is MS Edge for Linux with the web app, works pretty well except for slow navigation. File uploads, audio and video all work. Even screen and window sharing on Wayland. The desktop is KDE, so it provides the XDG portals and the compositor. Pipewire does audio and maybe video routing.

Neil44 10mo ago

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

0ld 10mo ago

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

LouDNL 10mo ago

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...

skrebbel 10mo ago
You can, but now you have to be honest about why.
microflash 10mo ago
You can still dodge the bullet by saying this is an “unofficial” client using which may violate an unknown amount of compliance bullet points.
magguzu 10mo ago
Man I hate Teams with a passion but if someone on my team said this I'd know they were full of it. I use Linux and the PWA is functional enough.

pjmlp 10mo ago

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

crimsonnoodle58 10mo ago

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.

ris 10mo ago

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

jxdxbx 10mo ago

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.

ta12653421 10mo ago

does it allow to disable(!) incoming(!) video completely?

Xss3 10mo ago

My biggest gripe with teams is their markdown formatting. It works if you type it out character by character, but paste some Markdown in and it does nothing.

self_awareness 10mo ago

Teams is good with video calls, but so was Skype, which was apparently used as the video backend system. Rest of Teams? Abysmal. Logging to text files? Missing. Search? Broken. Speed? Sometimes the UI jumps around and I click the wrong things, because UI hasn't been loaded by the time I'm trying to click something. Formatting? Sometimes it's impossible, and I need to edit the message after sending, to be able to properly format it. If you don't have problems with Teams, you're simply not using them enough.

Havoc 10mo ago

Let me guess it runs on a potato unlike the official one...

jll29 10mo ago

Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? One reason to use Linux is to avoid such bloatware with unbearably poor UX. Rumor has it that a usability consultant died from a heart attack when he saw the first alpha build, but I may misremember the story (or confuse it with the deadly joke by Monty Python). I'm totally fine with text-based chat, and it had better be implementing an open standard (e.g. USENET news or Jabber). And it's by no means restricted to Microsoft: many companies use unclear interfaces with non-existant discoverability, sluggish response times, and cryptic menu names like "..." or "+"; and nobody neads multi-row menus at the top to compete for attention with left-side column menus, each of which featuring symbols that lack clarity - since when is one pane of icons not enough?

dangus 10mo ago
I use Linux because I find that it has more capability than commercial operating systems for my needs. I do count “running commercial software” as a need of mine. I would not be using Linux if I couldn’t run Windows games on Steam, 1Password, Slack, Discord, etc. Nobody’s forcing you to install Teams, and someone out there is breathing a sigh of relief because they have another option besides Mac and Windows for running the programs they need to run. I’m not really in a race to be the most opinionated user on the planet who refuses to use an app with a … or + menu, I just want a good OS that runs any program I might need.
surajrmal 10mo ago
Because you work for a company that uses Microsoft teams most likely. It's not always a choice you get to make.
ukd1 10mo ago
Some customers (e.g. DoD, gov) basically exclusively use it, so you'd have to if you ever interacted with them. This is a win.
osigurdson 10mo ago
>> Why would I want to use Teams on Linux? Well, I use Teams on Linux sometimes because I have a meeting and using a Linux machine at the time.

IanTerzo 10mo ago

I'm actually making an alternative client since I couldn't stand the normal one. https://github.com/IanTerzo/Squads https://github.com/IanTerzo/Squads

krauses 10mo ago

Would this make it easier to consume and store Teams data locally, avoiding the need for tagging M365 Graph API, if the goal is to build analytics or automation on top of Teams for things my personal account has access to?

junto 10mo ago
Depending on how locked down your Entra / AD is, you can login to Graph Explorer: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer Then you can execute the: GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf This will return you all the Entra Groups you are in, this includes the Microsoft Teams groups as well.

jjtheblunt 10mo ago

For Linux made me instantly remember the phrase "you can run, but you can not hide".

JaggerJo 10mo ago

Nice! A screenshot in the readme would be a great addition. I was looking for a native macOS Teams client a while ago - but to my knowledge this is the first 3rd party Teams client. The Microsoft Teams client frustrates me daily.

baby 10mo ago

Why not use the webapp?

dustymcp 10mo ago

I use it, it has its quirks but surprisingly its buggy and faster than the official one..

worldsavior 10mo ago

Looks cool but some pictures would help.

nottorp 10mo ago

It’s not a client but a wrapped web site though.

lovegrenoble 10mo ago

It's better to avoid Teams if possible

jeena 10mo ago

The Linux client is terrible. But that is why I for work stuff use Chromium and I didn't really have issues with it. The things in this list: System notifications - works with Chromium System tray integration (badge support varies by desktop environment) - I don't have a system tray on Hyprland with waybar Custom backgrounds & themes - ok, I never needed it but that is probably the only thing which is not working in Chromium Screen sharing support - Always worked, as long as you allow it Multiple account profiles - I'm doing that with different Chromium profiles, but yeah it kind of would be nice if it was possible in one window, so that seems also cool But for those two features it seems it's more hassle to deal with a unofficial version.

pelagicAustral 10mo ago

I can't be the only person that noticed this, but the Teams client for Linux never times you out, or never shows you as away, even when the pc is idle for hours on end...

wildredkraut 10mo ago

Well, Teams does the job(listen to bigger events and waste productivity with chit chat)

more_corn 10mo ago

God no