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Microsoft Teams on Linux desktop
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Besides the obvious issues with M$ Teams being a horrific rip-off of Skype, outdated (compare to Discord or Slack), slow, buggy, bloated, etc. M$ Teams worked "fine" for the most part, at least to be functional enough to use in a corporate setting. At least up until about a few months ago, a lot of critical features broke when an update was pushed to the M$ Teams desktop client for Linux and made scheduling a meeting impossible. The scheduler UI is completely broken and same goes for pop-out chats among other issues, such as chats not loading and sometimes requiring the client to be restarted completely. Now M$ states to use Teams as a PWA, what the heck is a PWA?
- What happened to the electron desktop app?
- Why hasn't someone from QA tested the update before releasing it to the public?
- Where do I get this PWA?
- Why is this not simple and straight forward? Does PWA support video sharing and all the current features the desktop app has? As that's what was claimed by Microsoft, hence why the corporate adoption of this horribly written spyware- er... software, was accepted. We need fixes and fast. I've not been able to schedule meetings, this is a serious problem and it's affecting corporate employees and businesses. I'm only interested in hearing from M$ developers who can resolve this issue. Cloned from https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/microsoft-teams-on-linux-desktop/28d026da-8381-4857-95f7-5ccc6bf25b2a
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Microsoft Slave 70 Reputation points
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Berlo, Clay 5 Reputation points2024-05-17T18:29:38.5+00:00 It really shows how much Microsoft loves Linux when they show so much neglect for the desktop versions of their app that are available on virtually any other platform. Kudos to Ismael Martinez for making the best of the situation and creating a usable wrapper around the web app. I've been stuck using the web app lately and it's been a terrible experience; every time I start up, it has to "upgrade" to the "new Teams" experience because that's what my organization uses. Hopefully Microsoft won't "accidentally" break this wonderful workaround.
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Kael Yao-MSFT 37,586 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2023-04-04T02:32:24.24+00:00 Kindly note that this forum mainly focuses on general usage issues and is not the suitable place for feedback.
If you would like to submit feedback to Microsoft, please consider posting in the Teams feedback forum.Thanks for your understanding.
What happened to the electron desktop app?
Teams for Linux desktop application has been retried in December, 2022.
Where do I get this PWA?
Please refer to this link to install PWA version (you may need to use Edge or Chrome browser): Microsoft Teams progressive web app now available on Linux
Does PWA support video sharing and all the current features the desktop app has?
Currently PWA does not support all the features like desktop app (if you mean desktop app for Windows).
I'm only interested in hearing from M$ developers who can resolve this issue.
Please consider creating a service request in Microsoft 365 admin center>Support>New service request.
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Microsoft Slave 70 Reputation points
2023-04-04T20:34:20.9633333+00:00 Please refer to this link to install PWA version (you may need to use Edge or Chrome browser): Microsoft Teams progressive web app now available on Linux
Show me. There's nothing but an article by some random person, no dedicated page, no download button, no link, nothing. I am not going to use your Botnet browser Edge, and I shouldn't have to use Google Chrome. Try again.
Kindly note that this forum mainly focuses on general usage issues and is not the suitable place for feedback.
If you would like to submit feedback to Microsoft, please consider posting in the Teams feedback forum.This isn't feedback. I'm stating facts and asking a question. If you want to try to argue why M$ Teams isn't equivalent to a burning dumpster fire, I'd be happy to hold a public stream with Microsoft Developers and my team on Twitter. I'd also be happy to go through and point out every violation of user privacy that Microsoft is guilty of. Regardless of their very cryptic Privacy Policy that virtually anyone who is not an attorney does not read. These are also facts. So let's just get back to the point here. The company I work for uses M$ Teams (unfortunately), I am a Linux user and have no intention of using Botnet 10 or 11. There are a lot of companies that use M$ Teams (unfortunately), they depend on competent developers. Microsoft made claims that they support Linux on M$ Teams (probably just because Skype for Linux was a thing and just ported over). If you make those claims, you are expected to uphold those values.
\/ This IS feedback.
Frankly, I don't care that M$ is segregating GNU/Linux out to a browser app vs its Apple MacOS or Windows counterparts. However, making users (developers, such as myself) jump through all these hoops is ridiculous.
Also, the "rich text" option is totally broken on this site. I rather just use the markdown option. Terrible.
^ This IS feedback.
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teamsfix 0 Reputation points2023-04-19T08:43:24.35+00:00 Teams-for-linux is working and "force use PWA" can be bypassed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1168169/open-microsoft-teams-link-on-linux-doesnt-work-aga?page=3#answers