Installing Windows software

[Robert Heller]

There is a x86_64 Linux teams application (there is also an Android teams 
app).  There is an x86_64 Linux zoom application.  There is NOT an arm or 
aarch64 Linux app for either.  But *chrom[ium]* is said to support both in the 
browser.

None of my current Linux machines are x86_64 -- all are arm or arm64 -- I used
to have a x86_64 laptop that ran Linux, but it did not have a camera -- I did
use it with zoom and teams (all people saw was a black screen with my name)
with the applications I downloaded. The Linux teams application used an
overide window (no window manager decoration -- M$ does not "trust" my use of
a window manager and its application wants to take care of WM duties itself
[idiot programmers]). I currently use an old MacBook for both teams and zoom
meetings (it has a camera). The teams app on the mac also "hides" the menubar
[ditto idiot programmers], making it hard to cleanly exit. More often than
not, I just ssh into the Mac from my Linux machine and killall teams from a
ssh login shell. M$ seems to believe you a) really should ought to log into
Office 365 (because that is the only thing you really should be doing on your
computer, since that is the only reason you have a computer, right? The entire
universe is is Office 365 and nothing else exists.) and b) should be in teams
meetings 24/7 for the rest of your natrual life. *I* don't have an Office 365
account (and have no use for one). It is possible to use teams without an
account, but teams will try its very best to get you to log into one and it
reports an error if you don't login -- if you ignore the error and *continue*
anyway it works, but then says things will be better if you log in and trys to
get you to log in again once the meeting is over and makes it hard to exit the
application, by making it hard to get to the red exit dot (maybe I just don't
have the "skills" to use the Mac GUI -- I mostly just ssh into the Mac to
occassionally build a MacOSX version of my software).

At Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:49:03 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 04:59:17PM +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> > I was recently advised that if I would like to participate in
> > teleconferences where others could see my face, I could get a licence for
> > Office365 so I could use Teams. It would only cost me $AU109 per year.
> 
> FWIW when I worked at Canonical and needed to use Teams for calls with a
> partner, I just used a web browser.  I forget whether it worked in
> Firefox or whether I needed to use Chrome, but in any case I certainly
> didn't need to install anything else or get a licence for anything.
> 

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