Jeffrey Walton [2024-04-24 20:13:57] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM Van Snyder <van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 16:42 -0300, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> (Please cc me when replying as I'm not subscribed to the list) >> >> >> Earlier this month, I noticed I was no longer able to login to Zoom >> >> meetings using the client installed from the Debian repos. In order to >> >> join meetings, I had to uninstall it then install the flatpack Zoom package. >> >> >> I think it should either be updated or outright removed in favor of the >> >> flatpack version. What do you think? Should I report a bug? >> >> >> I was expected to use zoom for a meeting. The zoom app didn't work at all >> in Debian 10, completely refusing even to open a window. I at first started >> with the zoom support in Firefox, but it didn't have a button to select >> high resolution for the camera, so the meeting host asked me to run in the >> app. >> >> I re-opened the session on a different computer that is running Debian 12. >> The app worked OK on that computer. >> > > Related, if you control the venue, then you might consider using Jitsi. > Jitsi is open source, and it does not have the obscene terms of service > that companies like Google, Microsoft and Zoom push onto people using their > service. With Jitsi, your meeting data is yours. It is not used internally > for other products, and it is not shared with partners like the Big Tech > companies do.
There's also BigBlueButton (more featureful than Jitsi, but apparently harder to install/setup/maintain) and I also heard good things about Galène https://galene.org/ (which is apparently the simplest to install/setup/maintain and the least demanding on the server). Stefan