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Data point: MS teams disables all of Teams' A/V features for Linux users based on browser user agent. If you use chromium and spoof your UA as if you were using Edge/Windows, said features work. [1] Microsoft is what it is - a very large company with various business units with differing priorities. I do feel like they are much improved from the bad old days, where they seemed to enact a company-wide strategy aimed at actively sabotaging Linux. In the face of that, I suppose indifference is an improvement, and their "we love linux" marketing is at least an admission that Linux support is a consideration for some elements of their business. [1] https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/1095

How does this compare to Franz? https://github.com/meetfranz/franz

For money, and whatever else, it seems. [1] It's a shame because it works well. I asked in their Slack channel if there would be a way to use Franz 5 without that, and was told no. The code has been open-sourced [2], so perhaps someone could fork it. [1] https://meetfranz.com/pricing/ [2] https://www.github.com/meetfranz/franz

eul.im is a closed-source commercial lightweight chat client launched 6 months ago; the author spent a few months advertising on related discussions until snagging a bit of critical feedback. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eul.im&sort=byDate&type=commen... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597468 (apparently it still downloads a 180MB embedded browser https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/60) There is also https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical (no development since initial October appearance) CLI and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597508 >nikisweeting: https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox [...] https://github.com/meetfranz/franz [...] share one Electron instance for all your chat services

Rambox (Open source) https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox Franz https://github.com/meetfranz/franz These are similar apps. Though they do use Electron, they let you share one Electron instance for all your chat services.